Adsense server delays?

slowing down page loading times

[Rodney]

I've noticed on some of my sites that carry adsense, the page starts to load very slowly at times.

One one particular site, the only externally pulled link/image on the page is the adsense code, which seems to be loading slower in recent days.

Anybody else experiencing slow page loading due to adsense?

[signup1]

use adsense outside table. it will be fast for the page to download.

[MrAnchovy]

A better way, if you are truly concerend about third-party content slowing down your page, is to load the offsite-content at the very end of your page, but then position it with DHTML/CSS positioning.

If it's been a problem over several days, as you state, I'd start looking internally instead of at Google.... packet loss somewhere between your computer & Google and/or your webserver, or possibly even that your webserver is responding slow, for whatever reason.

[HarryM]

I'm in the UK, and I have noticed that on some days Adsense load times can appear to be slower than usual. However I use a div/css layout and it doesn't effect the page load time.

If you load Adsense last you run the risk that the ads will not show before a user has left the page. I have the html arranged such that the div containing the ads comes before the main content. This sends the request to Google as early as possible. It doesn't slow down page rendering which carries on as normal, but it gets the ads up quicker. I think it helps when Adsense is running slow.