J Gen Virol -- Slow Response
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HELP WITH Journal of General Virology Online:
Journal of General Virology Online's Site for Readers Outside of USA/Canada
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To increase speed for users of Journal of General Virology Online from specific countries outside of USA/Canada, Society for General Microbiology has contracted with Digital Island. To use this service, first confirm that you are within the list of "SPECIFIC Countries Covered" on this page, then go to Do not use this service unless you are IN one of these countries. Other locations, even if they are NEAR a country in this list, will see a speed decrease.
NOTE: If you go to http://intl-vir.sgmjournals.org and notice that it changes to http://vir.sgmjournals.org/ that means our system has automatically detected that you are using a very-high-speed research-network connection between Stanford University (where the Journal of General Virology Online server is located) and your organization. This network is called "" (or "Abilene"). Our server automatically uses that very-high-speed path instead of Digital Island.
What is ? Digital Island should make inconsistent web service good and consistent. It will not make already good and consistent web service instantaneous. There are a few important things you should be aware of when using this alternate site:
- You should notice up to a 50% speed improvement in the loading of large pages, such as full text, PDFs and figures.
- You will not see a speed improvement in the loading of small pages, such as the home page or the search page.
- The first time you use you will probably notice an initial delay as the site's "address" gets recognized for the first time. This should happen the first time only.
- If you find that is faster than http://vir.sgmjournals.org/, you may want to set a bookmark for it.
More Tips to Improve Speed:
- Look first at Abstracts, which usually arrive in about 1/10th the time of a full article, if you are not certain you want to see a full article. You can do this by clicking on the [Abstract] link in a table of contents or in a search result.
- Increase the size of the cache that Netscape uses to save items that it has already seen. This will avoid returning to the server to get a symbol or a button that has already been seen before. You can change this in "Preferences/Advanced/Cache--Disk Cache".
- Change the "Page in cache..." (Mac) or "Document in cache..." (Windows) radio button in "Preferences/Advanced/Cache" to "Once per session". This will ensure a minimum number of inquiries to the server.
- Upgrade to the latest version of your browser. Each new version appears to have noticeable speed improvements, perhaps on the order of 20%. How to make sure you have the most current version of your web browser
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