Is it just running slow, or is there a forced delay to ensure you are looking at the ad banner?
It’s lightening quick for me.
… and highly doubtful they’d slow down their whole site in that way. Can you be more specific?
Perhaps your browser won’t render until all graphics are downloaded? That would be total shit, btw.
when i click on the what’s new, or indeed on any of the articles, the top of the screen comes in quicklyu, but it takes 20 or 30 seconds until the article loads, leaving me sat staring at the ad. As you say maybe it’s just my settings or something.
Ahhhh… that sounds to me like an overloaded php/mysql thing.
Site serves up the easy part… the ad… then has to go digging for the content.
I’m not a professional computer geek, so someone may post that I’m full of s***. But that same thing happened to me at Snopes several months ago.
Like you, I noticed that every time I went to Snopes I had a long delay before anything happened. I ran a spyware removal program and found three different spyware programs running on my computer. I believe what was happening was that after clicking on Snopes, before loading the page I wanted, it would first connect with the aforementioned spy sites to read and report my browsing history.
I used a spyware removal program to get rid of those programs and my browsing at Snopes immediately sped up again. I then set my new spyware detection program to notify me any time spyware tries to load; and guess what – it alerts me every single time I visit Snopes!
I don’t think the nice people at Snopes are intentionally loading the spyware; but I believe they have an agreement with their server provider to get discounted service in exchange for the banner ads. (They acknowledged doing this a couple of years ago.) I suspect it’s whoever is providing their server hosting or the banner ads that’s letting the spyware through.
Then again, I could be way off base. But as I said, my spyware detector indicates two or three attempts every time I visit Snopes. So whatever that indicates …