Slow page changes on satelliteguys.com

**cryptotech** · 12-23-2009 12:03 PM

This site has recently become annoying slow for me when accessing threads and moving from page to page within a thread. Speed used to be fine. Sluggish browsing within this site appears to be caused by all the advertising now appearing all over the place. I have made no changes to my systems and have the same problem on both my desktop and laptop PCs. I use DSL for internet access and speed for other sites is normal. Is it possible that your increased advertising load is causing my slow page loads?

**Ilya** · 12-23-2009 12:39 PM

I just logged out to see how advertisements look, and I can see the same problem: pages take anywhere from 10 to 20 seconds to load. And most of this time seems to be taken by advertisements loading their flash content, etc.

This is not good! We'll need to look into this. Thanks for the headsup!

**Scott Greczkowski** · 12-23-2009 02:04 PM

The ads are in iframes, so the rest of the SatelliteGuys content should load no matter if the ads load or not.

About 2 weeks ago however they were not in iframes and you needed to wait until each ad loaded before the rest of the page displayed.

Without iframes sometimes the page would take up to 9 seconds to load. With iframes it is taking less then two seconds which is a nice change.

**cryptotech** · 12-23-2009 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

The ads are in iframes, so the rest of the SatelliteGuys content should load no matter if the ads load or not.

About 2 weeks ago however they were not in iframes and you needed to wait until each ad loaded before the rest of the page displayed.

Without iframes sometimes the page would take up to 9 seconds to load. With iframes it is taking less then two seconds which is a nice change.

I don't know about iframes & such but my experience over the past week or so is more like Ilya describes in post #2; page loads can take as much as 10 to 20 seconds. As you describe Scott, I am having to wait until all ads are loaded before any of the page is displayed. And, oops, my thread title should have said satelliteguys.us not .com

**Ilya** · 12-23-2009 05:19 PM

Well, 10 seconds or more only in non-registered mode (when I log off). It's much faster when logged in as a registered user: much fewer ads.

But Scott just showed me how quick it is on his computer. For him it's under 2 seconds even when logged off! I am scratching my head trying to figure out what's different. My Internet connection is a bit slower than his, but not that much slower. Must be some browser settings. I'll post here if I figure out.

**Scott Greczkowski** · 12-23-2009 05:43 PM

I have a feeling there could be a backbone issue. Our server itself is running like a top.

**cryptotech** · 12-23-2009 06:40 PM

Thanks guys. I hope you can find a resolution as my satelliteguys browsing experience is suffering from this reduced performance. My DSL download speed IS ONLY 750K but... page loading speed for me on this site used to be just fine until a week or two ago.

**harshness** · 12-23-2009 07:32 PM

My frustrations have been waiting for ad servers. It doesn't happen all the time, but the mixture often leads to rather long page loads. As I type this, Firefox is "Waiting for pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Still waiting.

**Scott Greczkowski** · 12-23-2009 07:47 PM

The Google Ads are the only ones we cant throw behind iframes unfortunately.

**guapoharry** · 12-26-2009 04:26 PM

Slow page changes are still occurring.... Sometimes the browser hangs. After a couple of minutes I close the tab and that kills the browser. Then Uncle Bill asks if I want to tell Microsoft what happened.