PAS website incredibly slow today - 1 April 2024?

[ManOnTheMoon]

I am wondering if anyone else is having trouble accessing the Public Antiquities Scheme (PAS) website at finds.org.uk today! I haven't viewed the site for several days, so the problem may have occurred before today, but the pages are taking tens of seconds to load. Sometimes the attempts just time out altogether, with no page appearing.

I am using an Android tablet, and get the same result from four different browsers - Firefox, Duckduckgo, Kiwi and Brave. It is a right royal pain in the backside. Other websites behave normally. Given the date, I do wonder if Russian, Chinese or North Korean hackers have engaged in a malicious April Fools attack.

[Phil2401]

Yes - same here (using a MacBook) - hopefully just a temporary glitch. Presumably their IT department are still on Easter hols...

Phil

[Rank81]

I was thinking of posting something similar. Same here on both android phone and Windows laptop.

Failed to load at all earlier today, now very slow and varying format. Was working fine yesterday evening.

Typical when I'm trying to make an ID

[ManOnTheMoon]

Thanks, folks, so not just me then. Phew!

[Dave The Slave]

Extremely slow yesterday.
Cheers,
Dave.

[ManOnTheMoon]

Thanks, Dave. As it happens, I have just had another peek at the PAS site and it now seems back to normal. If it was slow yesterday, then it clearly took some time to get it sorted.