ASF Site Performance

[noirua]

Internet Explorer can be slow at times and having a selection of browsers will help. Avant, Flock (US version better), Maxthon and Opera, are good ones to switch between.
There are draw backs in that Flock and Opera cannot be magnified, but Flock does have a carry with you spell check.

 

[Julia]

Several times recently, just after logging on, I've had the screen freeze.
Have to close down, get the message from Microsoft that a problem has occurred, send the error report, then log on again and it's OK the second time. Anyone else having this difficulty?
Not happening anywhere else.

 

[white_crane]

Recently (last couple of day), I logged in and viewed a couple of threads, then for some strange reason, no pages from this site would load. I opened another site (that I hadn't already visited) and it worked, so it wasn't my connection.

Edit:
By some miracle I was able to log out. When I logged back in again, it worked fine.

 

[sails]

Have noticed lately this path including doubleclick.net at the bottom of the screen. See image below. Only seems to be on ASF. Is this something wrong with my PC - or does it somehow help ASF?

Sometimes the pages take a long time to load - again seems to be only ASF.

From time to time, ASF freezes when loading a thread and then when pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del to display windows task manager, there are two instances of the thread I am wanting to look at. It takes some time for it to shut down, and then it shuts down all IE windows. On sending an error report, MS says it is a fault of MS windows but they don't currently have a fix. LOL, then MS wanted to know why I didn't like their response...

Just wondering if these two issues are related? Does anyone else have this happening? Any techies have any ideas?

Any ideas, Joe?

 

[MrBurns]

Have noticed lately this path including doubleclick.net at the bottom of the screen. See image below. Only seems to be on ASF. Is this something wrong with my PC - or does it somehow help ASF?

Sometimes the pages take a long time to load - again seems to be only ASF.

From time to time, ASF freezes when loading a thread and then when pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del to display windows task manager, there are two instances of the thread I am wanting to look at. It takes some time for it to shut down, and then it shuts down all IE windows. On sending an error report, MS says it is a fault of MS windows but they don't currently have a fix. LOL, then MS wanted to know why I didn't like their response...

Just wondering if these two issues are related? Does anyone else have this happening? Any techies have any ideas?

Any ideas, Joe?

Doubleclick is an ad server, counts clicks to an ad for client reports.

 

[sails]

Doubleclick is an ad server, counts clicks to an ad for client reports.

Thanks Mr Burns - apologies for my ignorance, but why does it do that every time I simply open an ASF thread?

 

[MrBurns]

Thanks Mr Burns - apologies for my ignorance, but why does it do that every time I simply open an ASF thread?

I'm only guessing but I presume Doubleclick track every page., I cant see it because the pages load so quickly.

If you go to a page then go view/source from the menu at the top and scroll to the bottom you'll see a referrence to NetRatings they track how popular the site is and Postclick, they sell ads on the site and track the performance using Doubleclick.

 

[So_Cynical]

apologies for my ignorance, but why does it do that every time I simply open an ASF thread?

All part of Google advertising...every click it should load a different ad, on some sites
there targeted at your particular likes, what u have clicked on or searched for before.

Also sails u should be using Firefox not IE...anything but IE. :nono:

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi everyone,

I noticed these delays a couple of times today also for the first time and like others here I noticed that it appeared to be a Doubleclick issue. I will look into it and see if I can get assurances that it wont happen again.

 

[sails]

I'm only guessing but I presume Doubleclick track every page., I cant see it because the pages load so quickly.

If you go to a page then go view/source from the menu at the top and scroll to the bottom you'll see a referrence to NetRatings they track how popular the site is and Postclick, they sell ads on the site and track the performance using Doubleclick.

Yeah, would be nice if it was so quick I couldn't see it! Have never known ASF to be so slow - perhaps a problem with my PC. But then it mainly seems to be when in ASF.

All part of Google advertising...every click it should load a different ad, on some sites
there targeted at your particular likes, what u have clicked on or searched for before.

Also sails u should be using Firefox not IE...anything but IE. :nono:

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Google are a bit invasive at that rate

Have downloaded mozilla - but it's messed up the nice order I had in my favourites in IE. It does seem a bit faster though - thanks Cynical

Hi everyone,

I noticed these delays a couple of times today also for the first time and like others here I noticed that it appeared to be a Doubleclick issue. I will look into it and see if I can get assurances that it wont happen again.

Joe, those redirections still seem be slowing page loading process considerably. Have attempted to block both doubleclick and atdmt in security settings - will see if that makes any difference.

 

[MrBurns]

I'm getting email notifications days late , is this a known issue ?

 

[Joe Blow]

I'm getting email notifications days late , is this a known issue ?

This is the first I have heard of it. However, if it is happening to anyone else please let me know in this thread. I will have a look and see if I can figure out why this would be happening.

 

[MrBurns]

My incoming mail is iinet perhaps it's an issue with them, I'm only answering this because I returned to the thread to have a look, I'm still getting very old notifications.

 

[MrBurns]

Just sent myself an email from another account and it works fine

 

[MrBurns]

They might be duplicates actually, emails resent. That might happen when the poster returns to the thread, the system resends the emails, I know it sounds weird but it happened to me once on a site I had, cant remember how it was resolved.

 

[Julia]

Joe I'm still having trouble with the screen freezing and being unable to exit.
Happens every time I'm on ASF but not on any other website. Have to close the programme down and start again.

 

[noirua]

Joe I'm still having trouble with the screen freezing and being unable to exit.
Happens every time I'm on ASF but not on any other website. Have to close the programme down and start again.

Perfectly OK on Mozilla Firefox/Flock.
Internet Explorer has had some problems recently, I've given it up for now. Screen froze and kept having to use Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Also some plug-in problems they're trying to resolve. May not be ASF at all.

 

[noirua]

Perfectly OK on Mozilla Firefox/Flock.
Internet Explorer has had some problems recently, I've given it up for now. Screen froze and kept having to use Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Also some plugin problems they're trying to resolve. May not be ASF at all.

Adobe Reader 9 quite often causes problems on plugins and has to be completely removed and reinstalled. As soon as I did this all the problems disappeared until that new patch update for IE was installed.

 

[shaunQ]

Joe I'm still having trouble with the screen freezing and being unable to exit.
Happens every time I'm on ASF but not on any other website. Have to close the programme down and start again.

Just some possible tips. Alt F4 always quits the program your in (careful as repeatedly pressing it will close everything open). Make sure your IE and Windows Update is update to date.

There was a recent high security bug found in IE where they recommended it not be used. At very least, you should consider using Firefox for any banking related things while your experiencing any problems to be safe.

If its an Adobe Flash problem. This site should be no worse than say news.com.au that has lots of flash advertisements.

Google's browser Chrome runs each tab as a separate process so if one tab of Chrome crashes, it doesn't effect everything else that is opened like IE does.

Interestingly (FOR ATTENTION OF JOE). The following JS errors are raised on this page due to the ads which could cause it to lock. (see below).

1. Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=393402 from frame with URL http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/adi/N7...~okv=;tile=4;sz=468x60;~sscs=?;ord=613940587?. Domains, protocols and ports must match.

2. Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=393402 from frame with URL http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/adi/N7...=1;dcopt=ist;sz=728x90;~sscs=?;ord=613941964?. Domains, protocols and ports must match.

3. [The HTML that caused this error was generated by a script.] Unmatched </embed> encountered. Ignoring tag. http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/adi/N7...~okv=;tile=4;sz=468x60;~sscs=?;ord=614533635? (line 41)

4. [The HTML that caused this error was generated by a script.] Unmatched </embed> encountered. Ignoring tag. http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/adi/N7...=1;dcopt=ist;sz=728x90;~sscs=?;ord=614535190? (line 41)

 

[Joe Blow]

Thanks for the information Shaun.

Will look into this and see if there is anything I can do.

In the meantime if anyone else is experiencing similar issues please let me know about it in this thread.

Julia, just wondering if you are using Internet Explorer as your browser?