I believe that the Constant Contact interface has been suffering a gradual decline in speed over the last year or so, and I do believe the problem is on their end. I generally work at very low workload times (2-6AM) and basic messages can take me an hour or two. Round trip times to their server (e.g. during "Save" operations) are ponderous. I have sometimes closed the browser window because I can't tell if it is slow or hung. If an operation takes longer than making a cup of coffee, that just too slow. I do not believe it is my browser (tried many), machine (hefty memory, lots of free disk space), or connection (35+ Mbps download, 5+ Mbps upload). I believe it is their back end handling update requests from their in-browser client. To be fair, Constant Contact is trying to do some pretty nifty stuff in a browser ... stuff that Facebook does (very well) but on a *much* smaller budget. I think that their back end technology is not up to the task. Sadly, I think if things get much worse, CC will be borderline unusable and I may have to consider (gulp) a new service for sending emails ...
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