Adsense ad loads, disappears and then a new one reloads

[Mikaelo]

Hi guys,

I discovered something interesting on one of my wordpress sites. I haven a 300x250 ad inside my articles and sometimes when opening the certain article, the ad loads and then suddenly approximately 1 second after blinks/go away for 1 second and a then a new ad shows. Is this a normal behaviour and if not what could be wrong?

Thank you so much

[trebuchet]

I know that asynchronous ads have a refresh feature where ads can reload without the entire page being reloaded. That could be doing it. If not, I'm not sure.

[Mikaelo]

Yes! that sounds like it. But I think it is kind of counterproductive. Is it somehow possible to turn it off?

[netmeg]

I'd ask support. I've never seen any of my ads do that across many sites.

[jbayabas]

The problem with mine in mobile is that sometimes the ad does not load at all but will when I hit refresh.

[Rasputin]

mikaelo, I had the same situation when I started using media.net ads on the same pages.
I'm pretty sure it contravenes adsense rules to force page reloading so I took off media.net until I find a solution - I did ask their support but never got a response.`
I imagine it has something to do with conflicting js or order of js on a page in certain unusual circumstances but haven't got round to investigating yet.
trebuchet, I never came across this 'feature' even on browser page resizing, do you know where you saw info about it?

[martinibuster]

...has something to do with conflicting js or order of js on a page...

That's my suspicion. It's something I've experienced as recently as a month ago. This kind of conflict has been an ongoing nuisance with AdSense ad units.

[Edge]

the ad loads and then suddenly approximately 1 second after blinks/go away for 1 second and a then a new ad shows

I had the same issue with double loading AdSense - dropped my revenue btw. At this time it appears that a Template I was using employed a js script that equalized columns after a full page load. I removed the function from my webpages to solve the problem.

This was a purchased Dreamweaver add on template system.