Why are news websites (and a few others) slow?

pennypincher2013

I'm baffled as to why 99% of news websites, ebay and thesaurus.com are so slow, I'm starting to give up on them. I have checked for viruses, malware etc. on my laptop and all is ok. Any ideas?

twhitehousescat

adverts from external feeds slow in loading , johnson press suffer badly from this , as they use "pooled" adverts on regional newspapers

EveryWhere

pennypincher2013 wrote: »

I'm baffled as to why 99% of news websites, ebay and thesaurus.com are so slow, I'm starting to give up on them. I have checked for viruses, malware etc. on my laptop and all is ok. Any ideas?

What are the specifications of your device?
Which Browser do you use?
Do you utilise an ad-blocker?

googler

Big, big, big front pages laden with lots of stories and lots of pictures, along with adverts and links.

stragglebod

Perhaps it's a slow news day?


+1 to other comments about ad blockers, I use uBlock Origin and if I'm on a mobile hotspot it really speeds up ad-heavy sites.

AndyPix

pennypincher2013 wrote: »

I'm baffled as to why 99% of news websites, ebay and thesaurus.com are so slow, I'm starting to give up on them. I have checked for viruses, malware etc. on my laptop and all is ok. Any ideas?

Yep - its the horrible amounts of javascript etc pulling in ads from loads and loads of different sources, you would be amazed how many get requests are sent at the loading of most of these news site pages ..


Use an adblocker at the very least .. and/or noscript

forgotmyname

Thesaurus.com loads images and data from dictionary.com

It also links to pubmatic.com, cookielaw.org, sfdict.com and googletagservices.com