I have been trying for weeks now to synch my new vivofit 4 with my Noom app. The problem always arises when it tries to load the Garmin pages. I have plenty of screen caps I can share. Why are all of Garmins webpages so slow and poorly functioning? I’ve tried with two iPhones a and two separate computers. I’ve complained about it being impossible to access the site several times. Couldn’t even buy my new tracker from Garmin’s site because it would never load.
You can always try to analyse what exactly causes the delays, localizing the problem better. On a computer, open DevTools in the browser (F12 or Ctrl+Shift+i), click the Network tab an load the page. When it is visually loaded, click the red button on the extreme left of the menu to stop further loading of diverse scripts, that continue to be called, and which would complicate the analysis.
In the column Time, you can then see the loading times of individual elements of the page, and in the last column Waterfall you see the sequence of the loading. Click on the header of that column to have the elements sorted by the order of loading, and then click on the lidividual elements to see the details. In the example below (loading the Personal Records page on Garmin Connect Web) the most important element is the PersonalRecord.default.... - the third row from the bottom. It started to load 450ms after the initial request, and loaded after some 390 ms. All together some 840ms - it is not instant, like it can be at symple static pages, but at dynamic pages with a huge number of elements, it is a rather standard loading time.
So try it yourself - perhaps it can reveal that some of the elements are lagging more than others for some reason.
