Super slow loading - Ads?


Hey Admins/Owners:

Listen, I get that you need to monetize Audiogon somehow, that's fine, but as someone who worked in ad tech I think I see a problem which I hope I can help resolve.  Page loads are being blocked by ad loads.  It's especially bad on mobile.  In other words, the page loading time is now the sum of ad load time + audiogon content.  If ad loads take a long time ( and they vary by a lot depending on cookies, ad service, geo location, etc.) then the total page load time gets bad. 

Please review your page load code to make your ad loads non-blocking.  That is, the page should load while the ads load in the background.  This is standard ad placement procedure.  

Thank you. 

 

Best,

 

E

erik_squires

@all We are aware of the slowness in the forums and are proactively looking into the issue. Sorry for any inconvenience this is causing. 

 

 

I am also seeing ads that load in the wrong place and block about 40% of the readable part of the forum.

They should also look at their recaptcha implementation as sometimes that will not load correctly and you have to reload the entire page.

I can confirm site is slow and ads are taking up real estate and negatively impacting site usability, particularly with my iPhone.