Thread: A question

Originally Posted by manic

The site pages can be very slow to load! Perhaps you use a non-add version?
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Don't see that problem, pages load quite quickly compared with some sites.

Originally Posted by incisor

gold subscribers can use a light weight skin that doesn't have adverts

Yep. But, having said that - I don't use it much unless I am on a really slow work connection somewhere past the black stump where smoke signals can be quicker.

actually im running ad block at home.
so ads shouldnt cause a slowdown

Originally Posted by incisor

i see more adverts than you generally speaking

i am not the only one that doesn't see the delays others talk of.

i have tried many optimisations over time and am always looking as what can be done, but some of it is out of my control.

gold subscribers can use a light weight skin that doesn't have adverts

You may not pick up on the page load issues that new site visitors get or those who do not frequent because of your browsers cache.

Also it is not always slow, sometimes all the 'extras' respond quickly, but with the way your html/js is set up - if any one of those external sites is having a slow day - it halts your page display.

Very often I get the AULRO header and nothing else whilst waiting for some external site request to load. Once it is delivered the rest of the page becomes visible. I'm sure many have had this happen at least once if they frequent this site.

My suggestion would allow the core page content to render first and any delays fetching external content after that is no bother. No question, it would be an improvement. Few people are interested in this kind of optimization... I'd rather not be, but its my job!

M.

Originally Posted by manic

Very often I get the AULRO header and nothing else whilst waiting for some external site request to load. Once it is delivered the rest of the page becomes visible. I'm sure many have had this happen at least once if they frequent this site.

I have this happen too. Not a lot, but it happens. Sometimes I have to reload the page as it hangs while waiting for some external site.

Landrover Porn Hot chicks that want to post pics of them possing on their landys, then you could start an anual aulro calender for all of us to hang in the work shop.
dont pretend it wouldnt be a popular section
other than that thumbs up for a good forum

we have done a land rover aulro calendar before

Originally Posted by manic

You may not pick up on the page load issues that new site visitors get or those who do not frequent because of your browsers cache.

Also it is not always slow, sometimes all the 'extras' respond quickly, but with the way your html/js is set up - if any one of those external sites is having a slow day - it halts your page display.

Very often I get the AULRO header and nothing else whilst waiting for some external site request to load. Once it is delivered the rest of the page becomes visible. I'm sure many have had this happen at least once if they frequent this site.

My suggestion would allow the core page content to render first and any delays fetching external content after that is no bother. No question, it would be an improvement. Few people are interested in this kind of optimization... I'd rather not be, but its my job!

M.

wait till i get my bunny ears...

only time i ever see headers only is on machines with incorrectly setup internet security software in place

i have tried a lot of what you have mentioned at times

defer when i have tried it stops most of the ads and a quite few other addon scripts working

async helps a little with some of the scripts.

everything that can be cached including the css files is

php is cached so are mysql lookups and just about anything else i have been able to tweak.

guests only see cached content

optimisation specialist i ain't and i am more than happy to send you a couple of the templates so you can have a play

the priority isnt just outright speed, it is reliability, compatibility and paying the bills so content loading with out the adverts aint a priority ...

Originally Posted by vnx205

Yes you can.

No-one is stopping you.

You can argue politics or sling mud until you are blue in the face if that is what you want to do. There are plenty of places where you can be as obnoxious as you like.

You just can't do it here.

You have been told why, but you seem to be so focussed on what you want to do that you seem to have difficulty appreciating the problems other people had to deal with when the sort of "debate" you want was permitted.

Dear unrequested impudent locum.

There was an opportunity to make a suggestion and I did. I enjoy the political stuff. Inc responded no ( again ;-) ) and that's that.

But seeing as you wanna have a personal go at me...

Funny nobody bothered to mention the problems I personally caused previously and how I am now the obnoxious one and obviously the root of all evil in your mind.

I bet it's ok for me to have an interest in politics if I praise the PM or the government but sure as **** if I want to have a go at them I am a problem...

Some of you guys are so blindly hypocritical and still can't help playing the man when you are faced with stuff you don't agree with, or people who think differently to you that wont be bullied into submission.

Rack off bully boy.