Something I always wonder

time taken to load google's own pages

[Iwrite]

Most of the time, I think, "well there is a lot you benefit from google - like the searches, so don't knock them too much" but something always puzzles me. If I want to look at adsense clicks it often takes ages for the page to load. Sometimes I actually give up and come back later.

Is this just that there is heavy traffic logging into adsense? I can understand that.

Funnily enough I have noticed this on other major sites as well - yet I always thought that the time taken to load a page was an important factor on whether people stay with a site or move on elsewhere. Is it that if you get BIG, you know that people will come back or stay around waiting for a site to load, or is this something to do with something else?- plenty of sites load quickly so it is nothing to do with my computer.

Iwrite

[jetteroheller]

You mean the landing page of the ad loads slow?

It's somethimes strange how terrible bad programmed are big web sites.

As I changed AdSense ads to SSI, I was concerned about the longer load time, so I checked with a speed test.

I lost about 2 or 3 1/100 seconds, but big web sites tested hat beed 3 times slower to load.

[Iwrite]

NO I mean when you sign in to google adsense to check stats.

[malachite]

This has happened a lot during the last week, so I hope now G has uploaded its new features, referrals etc, that things will get back to normal soon.

[robsynnott]

Google's AdSense frontend thingy runs over SSL, and is also querying a large distributed database. It's reasonable to expect it to be somewhat slow.

[Maxima]

If you mean the speed of loading the adsense ads is slowing you down, then you can try using iframes

[linear]

They added urchin tracking a while back, I noticed it really started to drag at that point.