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[silversurfer44]

Not just Google ads that slow things down spasmodically.
I visit some other forums that carry ads from other targeting ad companies and they can slow the job down.
Yahoo are such a site that use ads from external sources and use targeted ads. I know from me making a purchase from a company on the web a day or two later an ad will appear for this same company. If I use Firefox with an ad blocking addon then the pages will load with no delay at all.
So I wouldn't blame Google ads it's the external sources that Google get their ads from that is the problem.

[UncleUB]

The site is very slow loading pages for me at present,all other websites are fine......

[tuftedduck]

Seems fine for me, unkyUb although sticking occasionaly at loading some of the google ad things.....especially the one for BeThere..

[roseway]

It does still seem to happen from time to time, but I can't offer any explanation apart from the Google ads. The server which hosts the site is a very high-powered one.

[UncleUB]

Seems ok now,it does seem to be the Google-ads that make things slow to load.

[UncleUB]

The site is very slow at present,and not Google ad related.In fact it has been down for a short period a few minutes ago

It's not just you! http://forum.kitz.co.uk looks down from here.

[silversurfer44]

It's not just this site. I have had a few sites slow to load which are normally like flipping the pages of a book.

[Oranged]

I'm noticing slow loading on various sites even ones that don't use Google ads.

There must be a general problem....probably a JCB's hacked into a key fibre conduit again.....it usually happens on a Friday.

[waltergmw]

I too experienced very slow downloads of the Kitz site only around 9:30 a.m. using my Virgin service but 10 pings to www.kitz.co.uk averaged about 18 ms which seems remarkably good.


No known BT outages
http://status.zensupport.co.uk/outages/
http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/mso.php

AAISP reported two line drop incidents in the early hours this morning
http://status.aaisp.net.uk/?incident=624

Kind regards,
Walter

[silversurfer44]

It could be routing problems seeing as a few sites were affected. A lot of sites do use Google and Yahoo advertising plus others. It only takes one to slow the rest down. It could also DNS problems I suppose.

[UncleUB]

I will just add that is was only Kitz that was affected in my case,all other sites I use were ok. 

[silversurfer44]

Take That was to blame according to the news.

[UncleUB]

Take That was to blame according to the news.

The mind boggles. 

[silversurfer44]

Read all about it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11650620

[kitz]

I wasnt about yesterday, but I did hear from a friend at the time that 'parts of the internet had gone into meltdown'.   I was dubious about her comment, but about a couple of hours later I heard from another source that slowness was being experienced via certain routing (peering?).
I believe that BT said that telephony demand trebled from normal during this period too.

Im afraid I cant confirm or deny because I didnt experience this first hand.