Comments on: Advertlets - Slowing Down Your Blogs~

By: Tuckee

Tuckee — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:51:42 +0000

that is so truee, advertlets is slowing down my blog. Try entering my joke collection blog,

www.lawakjoke.blogspot.com

once advertlets is completely loaded, everything appears

By: melvin,foong

melvin,foong — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:16:36 +0000

It’s just being JL, always serve uncooked items.

By: Josh Lim

Josh Lim — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:59:02 +0000

Oops, I meant “now”, not “know”….please fix the typo for me if you can.

By: Josh Lim

Josh Lim — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:57:38 +0000

Hi Menghua,

Josh Lim from Advertlets here. Noticed you’re running the new lighter version of the Advertlets javascript code. It should be much faster for you know, cheers!

By: didi

didi — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:05:54 +0000

Luckily i didnt put that thing in my blog…

By: crynobone

crynobone — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:46:46 +0000

It’s just about the JavaScript being downloaded twice, yes Josh might be right that his server load would still be the same but what about click load. Now I don’t have any solid prove because I never really conduct test to benchmark the browser performance when loading a script or even images multiple time but I pretty much sure I have an effect (when your in a low capability CPU).
Among other thing, I seen some WP Plugin that use Prototype.js such Lightbox 2, WP Grin and so on and still Advertlets require internet user to download they Prototype.js again. Thus making it not optimize and slow down the user experience.
How to optimize this:
1. Instead of downloading everything, you evaluate whether Prototype.js have been loaded using Prototype.Version object.
2. Optimize the JS, strip function that are not being use.
3. Compress the JS.

By: menghua

menghua — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:35:38 +0000

both ads network are still new… which I think they will need some time for them to solve those problems..

By: CypherHackz

CypherHackz — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:44:25 +0000

it also happen with nuffnang. it really takes time if you use dial-up like me.

By: menghua

menghua — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:47:26 +0000

Thanks for the fast reply Josh. Will check next week, hopefully it will load much faster and better!~

By: Josh Lim

Josh Lim — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:46:55 +0000

Hi Meng Hua,

Thanks for your comments. Your detailed comments are appreciated, and yes, we are aware of the loadtime, and we are looking into this.

But just so you know, there isn’t “double-loading” happening - although the file is loaded twice, the second time it is loaded from the cache and no additional resources are used.

However, we are aiming to make the code more lean and efficient, so check back in about 5 days time and let us know if its better