Geo-Targetted Ads Take So Loooong To Load!!!
 

I love the AFF geo-targetted ads and feel they do result in increased sales however I am worried about them taking so long to load.

Whenever I put them on a new page and then point my browser to it, the page takes at least 3-4 times (sometimes more) longer to load. My fear is that surfers - with thier infinitessimal attention span - will just close the browser sometimes instead of waiting for it to load.

Any thoughts on this?

Do others experience it?

Any way to fix it?

mopek1

Sometimes they do, sometimes they are pretty quick. Anything with additional scripting will take longer than a simple graphic.

The database structure can be pretty intensive on a high traffic box. I have a setup which makes it like 10x faster to read, but even that with a lot of traffic will slow down a given box. AFF has a massive cluster of servers doing geoip lookups and they still slow down once and a while...

it takes a lot to look up an ip and match it with a city and then draw an image (ive run that database for fun at my house)

they should consider caching the images since they deal with so much traffic.

and i do mean saving an image of every single ip address to disk...

ie: 127001.jpg

or mayve /127/0/0/1.jpg

seems like a lot, but considering the size of the operation its not all that crazy of an idea

I do this but just by caching the image for each city... The db lookup isn't that bad at all if you setup the database properly.