torrents page loads slow - www.google-analytics.com

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the great work here at d-addicts, I can't tell you how much I really enjoy your site and all the stuff on it.

I've been noticing a pretty significant slowdown on page-loads when I try to get to the torrent listing pages (and possibly other pages).

What I've noticed that at the bottom status bar on my FireFox 2, the page seems to hang when contacting www.google-analytics.com

I've searched through the D-Addicts pages to see if there were any references to google-analytics, and found some people say that a quick fix is to adjust my HOSTS file, which is fine.

But I also went out on the net to look up some things about the google analytics service and the urchin.js file involved and here's what I found...

This particular page says that the google analytics document tells you to place the script code at the bottom of the page, like REALLY at the bottom ... right before the </body> tag so that if google analytics services are slow, the javascript won't hold up the rendering of the rest of the page.

Check the 6th paragraph on this page for details:
http://www.itliberty.com/internet_website_design/google_analytics.php

From what I see on just the torrent page on this site, it looks like you guys have the script line entered right under the <title> tag.

What do you think???

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:55 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Regardless of Google's sites being slow at responding, they do pay the bills here.

Now Crunchyroll's ads linking you to phishing sites... That's another thing... Unless you log onto that site with an account, most of the time their ads send you to scanner2-dot-malware-scan-dot-com .

It is the risk we all take when we need ads to pay for the site we enjoy.

--- groink

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

You might have spywares or something, too. Do consider that. <3

Also, Remember to clean your cache once a while. Will help your Browsers.

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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:40 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

OK, so I wanted to know if my browser was the culprit behind the slow page render on d-addicts... so I went to look for another site that is using the google-analytics script tag in their page and found this:

The Official Google Blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

They are using the google-analytics, but the page renders at a speed which is "normal" for me. So I check the source code on the page, and sure enough the script tag for google-analytics is like 3 tags above the close body tag.

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Could try using a Firefox addon called NoScript.

What it does basically is block every script loading from a website, including the parent one.
What it's used for is basically to prevent malicious scripts from loading into your browser / system.
So in relation to your problem, what this addon will do is to prevent www.google-analytics.com from loading in the 1st place.

Only bad thing about this addon is that you'd have to manually permit the parent site's script every time you visit a new site, or you might miss out on its full features.
If you find this too technical, then I guess you can try something else.
Otherwise, I hope this helps!