Ads are making site so slow

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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.

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.

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.

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.