[LINK] Fairfax sites really slow?

[Craig Sanders]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 05:25:01PM +1000, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> 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?

The Age works fine for me with Firefox, NoScript, and AdBlock Plus. speed
seems normal.

so does smh.com.au


block all that spyware (js and flash and web bugs) and advertising crap
and the site will load fine.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>