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Load Your Ads Last
Posted on November 19th, 2009 2 commentsNobody likes ads but we can all agree they are a necessary component of doing business online. I recently had some experience dealing with adify, a aggregating ad platform which pipes in banners from a multitude of sources some with questionable practices in regards to loading performance. I had just launched a beatifully crafted website that employed all the tricks in the book for quick page loads and it was snappy… until we embedded the ad code. I like to load my images asynchronously and I like to execute javascript only once the document has finished loading so imagine the pain of patiently watching little animated gif spinners swirling away for as long as 6-30 seconds because the browser is choking on javascript from the banner ads in the middle of the page. Normally the solution would be to fix the javascript, but being a third party ad network, the embedded code was far beyond my control, so clearly this needed rethinking. I needed to figure out how to load the ads asynchronously as well.
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Ajax – Too Much of a Good Thing
Posted on June 23rd, 2009 No commentsI’ve stated this many times, but working as a lead php developer at eroi has been both an adventure and educational. Each project brings new challenges, requirements, and the obligatory ‘experiments’. I’ve had the opportunity to deploy some pretty good size projects, at least what I would dub ‘enterprise’ scale websites with enough traffic to [...]
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