Ad Syndication taking forever

[methodman]

Or maybe its just my server but my pages are loading really slow and whenever i look at the progress bar to see why its being delayed so much i always see "ad2.googlesynd....." anyone else notice this or have any advice as to why my pages just take really long whereever the code for adsense is.

Its not my connection im on cable...

[mzanzig]

Noticed that too. Once in a while, the Adsense servers are really slow. Depending on page layout, this sometimes even prevents the loading of the pages at all. Which is not very good.

Also, I noticed that on days with such problems the number of clicks (and thus revenue) is significantly reduced (by about 25%), which is no surprise for me as people simply can't click the ads.

[david_uk]

I'm not seeing problems here myself, but impressions are down the last couple of days.

[21_blue]

I've not seen any problem either, and my stats are normal. But there are a couple of threads about ads not displaying that could be explained by similar problems, so something may be going on.

I think it is worth reporting it to Google. If it is not widespread, it could be a specific combination of factors (eg: lots of custom channels + blocklists at a certain data centre). They are the only ones who could piece that all together and find the cause.