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Is anyone else having trouble with GU pages loading? Whenever i go into "new posts" the page is blank, but the links exists and the drop down menu i can see and use, but i can't actually see the page or any text. I'm sure it has something to do with the newly placed Add's, as IE tells me its loading them when the page is invisible.
anyone else? or am i feeling the effects of X-ray vision?
nobody is listening.
it is a little bit slow at times.
I've got it hardcore, took me five minutes to load this page, same thing with the google syndication loading too.
If it's taking longer than 10 seconds, just hit F5 and 9 of 10 times it'll load right up. Should have this resolved shortly.
I am having exactly the same issue both at home and at work, just since the ads also.
It seems to stall on the google ads loading, but I've found opening pages in a new window reduces the occurrence of this happening.
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If it's taking longer than 10 seconds, just hit F5 and 9 of 10 times it'll load right up. Should have this resolved shortly.
Thanks mate.
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nobody is listening.
You don't seem to realise it's YOU nobody is listening to, or rather that nobody wants to hear.
Someone ban this RageirateX d1ckhead already.
I think the google ad banner "may" be the culprit.
Who is Rageiratex? what are you talking about? you are crazy!
:P
Installed firefox (ohnoes work pc) and that's not having any issues, although maybe OD fixored it already.
same as all above, page loads hang. refresh fixes. only since the ads were brought in.
ads are broked. :(
Apparently it's an IE issue, as if it's waiting for a Java script to load (slow Google advert), it'll hold up the rest of the page.
I'm trying to implement a work-around as I write this.
You sir, are a very nice person whose dedication to us plebs is much appreciated.
I second that, though your fascination with the PS3 is somewhat offputting.
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Is anyone else having trouble with GU pages loading? Whenever i go into "new posts" the page is blank, but the links exists and the drop down menu i can see and use, but i can't actually see the page or any text. I'm sure it has something to do with the newly placed Add's, as IE tells me its loading them when the page is invisible.
anyone else? or am i feeling the effects of X-ray vision?
yeah i had the same problem early on today took about 5 mins to load the page... same thing on the TF page..
FYI - Google ads chug a lot of websites from personal experience. Youtube is another one that chugs to the ground if the page has a google ad.
Quote from rec in other thread:
Firefox won't be affectd. IE users on the other hand will have to suffer for just a little while longer. We're working on it. Please refer to the thread Xaine has linked to.
Getting proper lockups in firefox now, can't refresh, browser not responding for about 30s to a minute at a time. Not sure if that's google ads or steam now though.
Steam IS having issues atm - maybe thats it, although I'm using Firefox and having no issues.
these google ads are pissing me off.. lagging out gu all the time.. ill pay not to have these ads there :)
Could be steam.
Those experiencing "lag" in IE is because of the Google adverts (which I'm still trying to find a fix for as I write this).
Firefox should work flawlessly (or is here, at least).
would loading them in an inframe fix the prob? since iframes load last dont they?
edit: duh it is an iframe
Already tried iframe. Used to work once upon a time with Google Adsense adverts, but not anymore. Looks like at some stage they changed something with their javascript that has resulted in the performance benefit zapped - the page in question will still wait for the java in that iframe to load in the header before proceeding with the rest of the website.
hrrm.. possible to preload it then do an include?
scratch that cos it'd need to do it for every thread/page, though you could preload a couple to speed up the latest pages people are reading.
There are two main ways to fix Google Analytics, ads etc etc.
The first is to download the javascript files and host them locally. Much faster, though it will break if and when Google change the scripts.
The second, which you should do anyway, is move all the javascripts you can to the end of the page. Google Analytics is just such a one. IE holds up rendering to try and execute JS first, for pretty good reasons.
I can't move the js to the end of the page - it's only possible with absolute positioning using CSS, which we can't do, because it's a centred design (pixel measurements change in every resolution).
As for the downloading of the js scripts - that's against their T&C's.
Oh well, I'm out of bright ideas. GL.
We've switched ad network providers, from Google Adsense to CPX Interactive.
There seems to be no slow down with these.
wicked, didn't even notice.
oh great. the guys that use the most annoying animated gif adverts on the whole wide intarwebs
OH MY GOD! NO WAY!
it just happened before actually :P not lying, page froze up obviously waiting for an add or something.