[LINK] Fairfax sites really slow?

[Richard Chirgwin]

Linkers,

So here I am on a decent broadband connection (1.5 Mbps), and the kids 
are doing other stuff so I know their downloads are not killing the link 
... anyhow, on the office on Friday I had the same symptoms (BTW: 
Firefox on Mac OSX, JS on or off makes no difference).

Fairfax sites may as well be off the Internet, they're loading so slowly.

Domain half-loads, then after displaying for a second, it tries to 
reload, I think because of the ad server rules, and goes blank and never 
comes back.

The Sydney Morning Herald simply doesn't load at all - just says 
"loading". The Age lives up to its name.

I wonder how many people are advocating "we need more and faster 
broadband" when they actually need "Websites that aren't designed by 
malicious morons"?

It's not solely a Fairfax phenomenon - I note that Justlisted may as 
well be hosted on Pluto.

Since I have plenty of sites open that work 100% fine - including The 
Register, Slashdot, New Scientist, Australian IT, and various 
woodworking sites - I have to wonder: what is it about new site deisgn 
that on 1.5 or even the office 24 Mbps links, the sites are stupidly 
slow? Is it the effects of useless redirects to ad servers? ( I notice 
lots of "waiting for syndication.google" or "waiting for sensis.com.au" 
on the deaders). Or something else?

RC