Alot of ads on sites today are hosted by a third part company and the sites are implementing these ads via the <SCRIPT> tag...
The problem with this is that the browser is waiting for this script to load before it loads the rest of the page ...
So .. the main page could be placed in Amsterdam and the server the scripts tries to load the ad from can be placed in the other end of the world - very often with a big delay...
You can always see if this is causing the slow page load by looking in the status bar .. "Waiting for bla bla bla ad network dot com.. bla bla bla..."
This is a VERY big problem on alot of sites today ...
It causes to page to load as slow as the slowest loading external script on the page...
A solution could be to place these <SCRIPT> tags on another page and load this page in an IFRAME on the main page.. could cause some cookie writing problems though..
The problem with this is that the browser is waiting for this script to load before it loads the rest of the page ...
So .. the main page could be placed in Amsterdam and the server the scripts tries to load the ad from can be placed in the other end of the world - very often with a big delay...
You can always see if this is causing the slow page load by looking in the status bar .. "Waiting for bla bla bla ad network dot com.. bla bla bla..."
This is a VERY big problem on alot of sites today ...
It causes to page to load as slow as the slowest loading external script on the page...
A solution could be to place these <SCRIPT> tags on another page and load this page in an IFRAME on the main page.. could cause some cookie writing problems though..
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