LinkedIn is Slow, Slow, Slow

July 3rd, 2008 by Gregory Silvano Posted in LinkedIn | 18 Comments »

I can’t be the only one with this problem.  LinkedIn has been sloooooow lately.  I think they’re having some network/bandwidth/scalability issues.  I doubt it’s me – all other sites are still nice and quick to load.

Has LinkedIn grown too quickly?  Is the new UI running some inefficient code?

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18 Responses to “LinkedIn is Slow, Slow, Slow”

  1. Patirck OMalley Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 10:35 am

    LinkedIn has definitely been slow for the last few months.

    I assume that part of the reason that they took on extra investors recently is that they want to augment their computer infrastructure, and it looks like they waited too long.

    It also looks like they are taking away features. It used to be that the Home page would show activity for your connections, but that just stopped today, probably because they decided not to spend all that processing time getting that info.

  2. Richard Says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 6:26 am

    Slow to the extent that it is timing out.

  3. Harshad Says:
    January 1st, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    Yeah..its just getting slower by the minute.Even the new invite are not getting successfully added.I think it must be scalability issue.

  4. Mike Coleman Says:
    January 4th, 2009 at 5:26 am

    I was having the same performance issues and tracked the problem to Java. (note I’m a Mac user and this occurs on a few websites). Turning off Javascript in my browser (Firefox & Safari) cured the speed problem completely
    A few pages on Linkedin need Java to operate normally, so it needs turning back on occasionally and then its time for a coffee!

  5. G. Says:
    January 11th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    had the same problems…
    extremely slow on both firefox and safari on mac os 10.5.6 unless javascript is disabled,
    another workaround is passing by a proxy service like hotspotshield.

  6. Patrick Kavanagh Says:
    May 8th, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    Hi,

    Has anyone contacted LinkedIn about this, or found a suitable solution?

    Thanks,
    Patrick…

  7. A Says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 3:32 am

    I think it may be time for someone to put linkedin out of its misery.

  8. RYAN Says:
    July 27th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    USE FIREFOX ITS FASTER. I HAD THE SAME ISSUE….. FOR SOME REASON IE IS MAKING IT WORSE OR IS NOT ABLE TO HANDLE THE LOAD

  9. Sam Johnston Says:
    July 30th, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    Still unusably slow…

  10. Matt F Says:
    August 10th, 2009 at 6:43 am

    Linkedin has been slow for me on every system and browser since day one. Usually it times out just trying to log in. I have repeatedly brought this up but support is non existent. I only bother checking it every month or two because it is essentially unusable.

  11. Dario Tonesi Says:
    August 17th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    Same for me: it’s been a while now (I say a year or so) that Linkedin is unusable. I can barely login, but then I cannot read any messago or do any research. Any idea on how to fix it? Thanks

  12. Bader Says:
    September 1st, 2009 at 9:48 am

    this post wrote on July 3rd, 2008 and Linkdin is still very SLOW Till this date

  13. rewrite Says:
    September 19th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    ridiculously slow

  14. johnvanveen Says:
    October 6th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    There’s a possible solution on linkedin.com’s help pages that requires users to change something called the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU), quite possibly making it the only web site known to man that depends on this parameter. By the way, if you use Windows XP adjusting MTU this means that you either have to tweak your registry or contact your ISP. Which I, for one, am not going to do.

  15. joe Says:
    November 11th, 2009 at 12:34 am

    this was first posted in july 2008, and there are still people regularly posting here about the problem? wow. ill now add my name to that list. linkedin is unusably slow. i can view the main site and pages, but cannot add new contacts or accept invitations. wtf.

  16. David Waring Says:
    November 29th, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    So slow it is impossible to use which is a shame as I have found the site useful. I also have no intention of changing a parameter just to satisfy 1 website. I have raised this with Linked In and their response was totally unsatisfactory and NOT customer oriented. I don’t have enough heartbeats to persevere with them

  17. Jo Says:
    January 11th, 2010 at 12:16 am

    I can’t even update my profile without it timing out. It seemed like a good place to list myself (graduate student), but now I wonder why I even bothered.

  18. Stature Software Blog » 5 Things I Didn’t Know About LinkedIn… Until Now Says:
    March 3rd, 2010 at 7:06 am

    [...] one that seems to have stood the test of time in the world of professional social networking. Sure LinkedIn is slow at times, but its connections, recommendations, jobs features are all great [...]

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