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Joe90
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09 Jan 2013, 7:15 am

I know I may have reported this before but I just wanted to say that this particular site has been doing weird things lately. Sometimes when I click on a title of a thread, the page fades away and turns into a blank page, so I have to close the internet and come back on it again. Also I still have to click about 6-8 times when going back, sometimes it's 3, sometimes it's more, and then sometimes it gets lost and takes me right back to my homepage. I have the latest version of internet explorer, and I have installed Google Chrome. The ads on WP didn't used to make the site run this slow.


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09 Jan 2013, 1:12 pm

If it's really the ads making things slow then you could consider installing an adblocker. I think AdBlockPlus is available for Chrome and Firefox (http://adblockplus.org/en/). It's a plugin that'll remove almost all ads on any page before even loading them.



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10 Jan 2013, 5:48 am

I just had an ad (probably HTML5 or something) pop up over a thread I was reading from ScorecardResearch.com. I have opted out and added them to my AdBlocker. I am using Chrome.



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10 Jan 2013, 10:36 pm

I agree ads are slowing down the site. Alex should consider a different host if he really has to pay so much for hosting that all those ads are needed. I personaly host some forum sites that probably have more traffic then WP. Whatever he is being charged it's too much if he needs this many ads. I think my biggest problem is the quality of the ads are very poor. At least Google ads are tailored to my preferences.