Ed McManus [03.21.07 07:04 AM]

The Internet's finest example of Ajax bloat: http://ecirkit.com/

  matthew mcglynn [03.21.07 07:42 AM]

Zimbra could take a lesson from Google Calendar. The latter loads up about 1 second. The Zimbra suite takes 6-10 seconds to initialize, plus 1-2 more to get into the calendar.

  Dave Evans [03.21.07 07:53 AM]

What about blog widgets? Cocomment and Technorati View Blog Reactions are painfully slow.

No more widgets that download icons remotely from another server.

We need a standardized reporting framework: I'm healthy, feeling sick, DOA, here's how to fix me. Make it an RSS feed.

Fail gracefully: I hate Javascripts that freeze pages for 10 seconds while trying to retrieve a 2k logo. Where did the "asynchronous" go in AJAX?

Unoptimized Blog plugins. Someone create a web service that parses widgets and ajax and identifies the parts that slow down the download, like an HTML/CSS/RSS validator. How difficult can this be?

Centralization: Services like Feeburner offer many of the services you used to have to go to a handful of sites for, alleviating multiple Javascript downloads.

  Avdi [03.21.07 09:11 AM]

I love Google Reader (reader.google.com), but it's excruciatingly slow. Particularly when categorizing feeds, it will simply freeze the browser for ten seconds or so after each new category is selected.

Note, I have ~300 feeds subscribed; I don't know if the slowdown is a function of number of subscriptions.

  tom adams [03.21.07 11:39 AM]

Google spreadsheets are cool, but really slow and lock up the browser (ie7) until they load.

  Nathan [03.21.07 03:44 PM]

Sorry...but the O'Reilly Safari ajax reader is reaaaaly slow.

  Jake [03.21.07 03:50 PM]

Hate to say it, but Yahoo Mail Beta is very slow as well. Most people I know still use the old version.

  TG [03.22.07 07:33 AM]

The WeightWatchers online points tracker (beta version) is painful to use. There are some cool features, but it is hard to put up with the pokiness.

I believe it is actually Flash, but there is a lot communication between it and the server, effectively working like an AJAX app.

  Joe [03.22.07 08:06 AM]

http://tv.yahoo.com/

As you scroll down the list of shows they load one section at a time...the loading seems slow! They should always load the next section before you decide to view it...that way it will make the user experience faster.

  Anonymous [03.22.07 08:08 AM]

make that http://tv.yahoo.com/listings

  Ted [03.23.07 03:42 PM]

Yahoo! Mail Beta is like chilled molasses, slow to load, ponderous on every mouse event and keystroke.

  Ciaran [03.23.07 07:04 PM]

Pretty much anything in (Apple's) Safari, unfortunately.

  mark [04.02.07 09:23 PM]

I suggest the "new" yahoo mail beta client - mail.yahoo.com I assume it's still going.

I would see my CPU expand, memory use jump, and eventual browser meltdown if it stayed open too long. It was so bad I switched back to plain old Yahoo mail.