are these the reasons why there is so much lag on this site?

oops,

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[Edited on February 9, 2008 at 6:19 PM. Reason : ]

2/9/2008 6:17:43 PM

some of that and some of it is cost savings

2/10/2008 12:06:09 AM

I would say get a premie, but thats not such a good idea since your accounts get arbitrarily suspended.

2/10/2008 10:44:22 AM

Make use of your HOSTS file.

[Edited on February 10, 2008 at 5:37 PM. Reason : spelling FTL]

2/10/2008 5:37:14 PM

This is starting to get ridiculous.

2/12/2008 12:11:00 PM

adblock ftw

2/12/2008 12:35:06 PM

is there a firefox extension for adblock?

2/12/2008 12:38:32 PM

i think the real question is does adblock run on anything else other than firefox

2/12/2008 12:43:52 PM

oh snap

2/12/2008 12:50:07 PM

*.ads.*
*.gator.com*
*/ad/*
*/ad-handler/*
*/ads/*
*/banner/*
*/please/showit/*
*/popup/*
*/popups/*
*adframe*
*adserv*
ad.*
ad?.*
ad??.*
ad???.*
ads???.*

that seems to do the trick

2/12/2008 1:42:01 PM

we've noticed the issue and are working to fix it. its a server problem on the ad side and if its not fixed shortly, we will remove them until it gets better. it should be fixed within the next few hours, if not, the ads will be taken down until the lag is fixed.

2/12/2008 3:55:19 PM

NAEL HAS SPOKEN

2/12/2008 4:05:27 PM

HEY NAEL, GREAT JOB RESPONDING.

HOW ABOUT SOME OTHER THREADS?

2/12/2008 4:15:32 PM

this has been an issue since the new ads were introduced

is there anyway that the html could be coded to load the ads last? then it would not keep the rest of the page from loading

2/12/2008 4:36:11 PM

some of them look smaller recently, still slow at times

2/12/2008 6:20:33 PM

its coded to get the ads to show up last, but for some reason they are not right now. we are looking into that as well.

2/12/2008 6:24:27 PM

I don't see any ads.

2/12/2008 9:47:46 PM

Quote :

"its coded to get the ads to show up last, but for some reason they are not right now. we are looking into that as well."

no, its not. while the ad javascript is not in the head tag it IS at the top of the page before the content. instead of putting the ad script there with a 1995ish "document.write", put the script at the bottom of the page down where the google analytics code is and do a document.getElementId('adArea').innerHTML replace. as it is now the rest of the page can't render until the ads are loaded.

2/12/2008 10:57:51 PM

^ THAT SEEMS LIKE A BETTER SOLUTION

I mean the ad company obviously is not going to fix the slow load times.

2/12/2008 11:03:41 PM

Quote :

"as it is now the rest of the page can't render until the ads are loaded."

2/15/2008 1:11:54 PM