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  • 1.  Once again: support portal barely loading

    Posted Jul 22, 2020 04:17 AM
    Edited by Carsten Schmitz Jul 22, 2020 04:17 AM
    Hi.

    Once again this morning: took me about 5 minutes and loads of luck (page and reloads) to get into the support portal.

    Many pages are not loading at all (stay white or mostly white) or are generating errors. I have said this before: please stabilize the systems you are contractually obliged to deliver. But there seems to be no effect of any of this :(


    (screenshot: this is a product page I got redirected to but it wasn't working either)

    Br,

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  • 2.  RE: Once again: support portal barely loading

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 23, 2020 03:54 AM
    Edited by Heena Tabassum Jul 23, 2020 05:22 AM
    Hi Carsten Schmitz

    Let me know if it is still taking time to load the support portal page. 

    Regarding the error message, could you please help me with the URL of the page?


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    Heena Tabassum
    Customer Care Community Admin
    Broadcom
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  • 3.  RE: Once again: support portal barely loading

    Posted Jul 23, 2020 05:19 AM
    Dear Heena.

    > Let me know if it taking time to load the support portal page.

    What does this even mean!?

    Yes, it takes time to load the support portal page. Most things take at least some time. I said yesterday that it didn't load initially and then it needed multiple reloads, it was very slow and overall it took me almost five minutes to get in. What more can I say, what more is there to this story from my side?

    This morning it takes about 15 seconds to load the support portal. Still far from great, but as they say: "Not great, not terrible". So you will probably argue that "okay, now it's fine again".

    But what does that matter? I am telling Broadcom to STABILIZE their stuff. I don't care if it's back to a SOMEWHAT working order today, it just FAILS WAY TOO OFTEN and it's just too sluggish overall. And yes, it's less sluggish without a proxy. But does Broadcom not understand that many customers HAVE to view these things through a proxy? That a proxy MULTIPLES any issues a website has? If you wanted to help yourself, curb the redirects and the Javascript and most of all the external resources. For the support portal, you are currently pulling in:

    https://avagoext.okta.com
    https://cdn.cookielaw.org
    https://www.googletagmanager.com
    https://use.fontawesome.com
    https://www.google-analytics.com
    https://script.crazyegg.com (by far my favourite :)
    https://ca-broadcom.wolkenservicedesk.com
    https://fonts.gstatic.com
    https://api-broadcom-ca-user.wolkenservicedesk.com

    Any one of them not responding will make your page not load and will make Broadcom look incompetent.

    In fact, stop relying on asking your customers. Benchmark the thing from over the globe and generate a report. Try it through a proxy. There's benchmark services for everything these days - if you can give money to Crazyegg, invest some into a proper global web benchmark instead. Generate a monitoring report. Then you (that is, Broadcom) will very likely see how bad this is, I have NO doubt about that. That's the professional way to go about it. Not asking me today ambiguous questions when the goal post has already shifted! Have monitoring results or anything like it from yesterday available? Great! Publish it. I invite you (again, i.e. Broadcom) to prove me wrong.

    This just feels like sea lioning what's going on here. At best, someone will promise that some IT team will look into something and we'll never hear from it again. We had that too many times. We need Broadcom to stop acting like some dude who operates a small busines from his living room. Follow your own marketing and be an industry leader.

    But I have told (again, i.,e. Broadcom) this about ten times now. I am done doing your work. Keep shooting your foot. Tell Hok Tan I said "Hi".


    > could you please help me with the URL of the page?

    That URL is literally on top of that screenshot.

    https://www.broadcom.com/products/software/automation

    (And of course, as of now, it works. But as you can see, that was a server generated error. So any company not operating seemingly from a living room will now have log files.)

    Best regards.


  • 4.  RE: Once again: support portal barely loading

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 24, 2020 10:09 AM
    Hello Carsten Schmitz,

    I've reviewed this issue with the concerned team. In fact, our Support Tools & Services Team is actively monitoring it. We did escalate a couple of issues to the vendor and they were resolved back in June - apparently, we are noticing it reoccur again. Also, we'll continue to monitor and engage our IT partners to investigate further.

    I'm also tagging my colleague, @Steve Desaulnier to this thread if you require further information.



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    Heena Tabassum
    Customer Care Community Admin
    Broadcom
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