Long experiment with videos freezes

Hi there,

This is something I have also experienced and is something that we are looking into (see similar thread here: How to trouble shoot when online experiment gets stuck only for few participants - #2 by Becca for a couple of points that might help with debugging).

As far as we are aware there isn’t a data limit from our side of things, so I suspect this is a browser cache/memory issue. Some things I would be curious to know:

  1. Does it happen everytime?
  2. Does it happen if you clear your browser cache before running the study?
  3. Does it happen on several devices? (I found the issue in my experiment on phones but not laptops).
  4. Does it happen across several browsers.

You’ve correctly identified that splitting in 2 might be the solution for now - but it would be good to avoid this if we can!

Becca