AdSense slows down page performance?

Is it just me?

[adfree]

Today, actually the first time I notice a slow-down in page build-up which varies between 2 and 5 seconds on top of the regular page load.

Can anyone confirm that?

Jens

[longen]

Ads loading slowing or not at all a few times.
Adsense login crashing now.

[gethan]

I'm seeing this too.

[illusionist]

cant login to me account!

[Gorilla]

Putting the adsense code at the end of the HTML-file and using CSS absolute positioning to place it back where you want it, will make the page appear to load snappy even when the adsense servers are slow. I've seen this before and reorganised my pages this way to get around it.

[makeupalley]

I'm seeing the slowdown and login problems as well.
I'm sure G will recover soon though :)

[olias]

Yeah slowness and login problems but I'm also finding the geotargetting is sometimes going wrong on one of my sites, suddenly lots of US ads instead of the typical UK ads.

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Of course typically as I wrote this the login page started working again
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[LukeC]

yes me too - geo targetting is wrong resulting in a low CTR :( US instead of UK..

[sebans]

Putting the adsense code at the end of the HTML-file and using CSS absolute positioning to place it back where you want it, will make the page appear to load snappy

hello Gorilla,

Today My Adsense on the header is even preventing the opening of the page.

how do you implement CSS abosolute positioning?

thanks in advance

sebans

[brakkar]

Since adsense slowness prevents some pages from loading, I would also be interested in learning about this absolute positioning solution. But does it works in all browsers?

Thanks,
Brakkar

[coho75]

CSS Positioning:

<div style="position:absolute; top:600px; left:50px;">
Adsense code goes here
</div>

You can put this anywhere on the page and the ads will show up where you have told them to -- i.e. 600 pixels from the top, and 50 pixels from the left.

[fidibidabah]

Er, that works generally. If your entire site is positioned by CSS, however, including spacing, margins, borders, etc... it might be a little fussy to work that out. It's better if you plan it from the begining, but then again, it always is :)

[Macro]

Adsense is messing up our sites big time today :-(

[joempie]

i even disabled google ads as nothing is coming through etc the moment....

[Macro]

It seems to be working ok now. Maybe intermittent.

[brakkar]

I noticed the problem coincided with new targeted ads showing.
Now that it seems to work fine again, I notice the old ads back and no new ones.

Maybe they are updating advertisers applications?

Brakkar

[gengar56]

Performance is OK here.

[adfree]

coho75 - thanks for the CSS positioning example, this will help, not just with the AS code.
Cheers, Jens