What was the long script.

Just asking as there was a Windows update last night for W/8 and I believe it was for script or fonts and was wondering if that had anything to do with it.

"I don't know what the boffins have done"

This really highlights our problem, because as far as I am aware we have have done nothing in terms of altering anything in the past 24 hours that would account for your experience.

The truth is that performance can vary considerably from day to day, and at different times of the day and night. This is invariably connected with site traffic, and the fact that at twenty past midnight, when you posted your comments, American office workers are shutting up shop for the day and heading home; their business emails have all been sent, the Eastern seaboard markets have closed, and the American e-commerce machine is slowing. VISA servers can begin to cool as the millions of day-time transactions start to decline. Internet traffic volumes drop in the couple of hours between Americans leaving their work and hitting the web for a bit of night-time bandwidth consumption.

Track the sun as the earth rotates, and you'll have an idea of how internet bandwidth requirements are directly related to daylight business hours and evening relaxation sessions.

I'm not saying that this was definitely the reason for your good experience, but I'm willing to bet it was a big part of it.

It may simply be one of those 'who knows?' situations. I've worked with web servers and networks for a long time, and I've learnt to accept that where performance is concerned there are sometimes no discernible causes for slow or fast page loading.

Let's enjoy the sun while it shines.

This was the W/8 update for last night.

Click here

There was also one for Flash update so not sure if that would have made any difference.