Outside advertising links causing page-loads to "hang" indefinitely

[bongomania]

Lately I've been having a problem where an outside ad link will cause a page to hang/freeze in the middle of loading for anywhere from a minute to "forever" (i.e. I get tired of waiting and I go to a different website). The main culprit is betrad.com, theirs is the one that causes the worst hangs. After that, pixel.quantserve.com, Google analytics, and something like "admxt.com" (although that one I may not have written down right). I can live with the half-minute to a minute delay of the quantserve, google, and the admxt ones, but the betrad one is really a major pain in the butt, effectively rendering this site unusable at times. Please look into it. Thanks!

 

[delta7fred]

I've occasionally had this trouble lately but never noted what was holding it up. I usually press F5 to reload the page and it comes up ok.

I use Firefox and can turn off the flash player. This speeds up my pretty slow page loading speeds considerably and reduces CPU usage. My broadband is more like svelte-band some days. In fact some days it was better on dial-up.

 

[bongomania]

FWIW I get the same problem on reloading each page, and I also have Flash blocked.

 

[delta7fred]

Could it be your firewall blocking, or checking the IP addresses for certificates? I'm just guessing here.