How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web?

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 17, 2007 @04:56AM from the but-not-for-firefox dept.

vipermac writes "Most of the times I have a problem with a Web page loading slow or freezing temporarily, I look down at the status bar and see that it's waiting on an ad server, Google Analytics, or the like. It seems to me that on popular Web sites the bottleneck is overwhelmingly on the ad servers now and not on the servers of the site itself. In my opinion we need a better model for serving ads — or else these services need to add more servers/bandwidth. Are there any studies on the delay that 3rd-party ad servers are introducing, or any new models that are being introduced to serve ads?"

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Use Adblock with my subscription... by JAB+Creations · 2007-08-17 05:18 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Use Mozilla Firefox... http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ ...with Adblock Plus... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10 ...with my filter subscription... http://www.jabcreations.com/home/home-downloads.ph p If you're seeing any advertising after using my subscription contact me and I'll be happy to update my list.

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adshow extension by jmyers · 2007-08-17 05:47 · Score: 0, Flamebait

How about a Firefox "adshow" extension that pops up every add in a separate window so they can all download at their own speed. Thats a lot better than been a crook and stealing content like adblock users.