The way alot of ads are made today is killing the net..
 

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..

can you post some example sites please?


spaz

yes this is killing the entire internet.

This danish news site is loading some ads from a german ad server.. makes it very slow from time to time..

http://ekstrabladet.dk/

I'll search for some good international samples and post them as well

I prefer ads to load before the rest of my website and make a point of them doing this the reason behindit is it mays the user see the ad before the site and I have tested this and I get a better clickthrough ratio this way and does not damage ppl returning to the site too much but my sites generally load within 2secs maximum

I like you .. I like you alot

I just use the extra time to masturbate.

I've tried that. But it works like shit when I surf ebay.com in the old cars section

I guess you need a new fetish! :winkwink:

That's why CSS rocks your world. You load the main content before the sidebars where the ads resides so the user can somewhat navigates if something goes wrong.