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IE11 - froze for 5-10 seconds on loading network front - could be ad related. #3083

Closed michaelmcnamara closed 10 years ago

michaelmcnamara commented 10 years ago

In IE11 navigated from R2 to beta site. The beta front loaded headlines but then froze for 5-10 seconds before finally loading images ads and landing message. The ad that was visible was a Singapore airlines ad that flashes through about 3 different images.

Given the timing I suspect we might be having some problems loading these ads in IE.

Is it possible to keep IE only serving the simplest of ads (do we have any filters like that?)

michaelmcnamara commented 10 years ago

Meant to ad the HTML for the ad for folks inspection, but looks like I have added the actual ad :-S

<div class="ad-slot__wrapper">
         <div class="ad-slot__label">Advertisement</div>
         <div class="ad-container"><script>OAS_RICH("Top")</script>
        <a href="http://oas.theguardian.com/5c/www.theguardian-alpha.com/uk-alpha/oas.html/L25/240666401/Top/Guardian/Australia2014_Reasons_Feb2014_TDs_LB_Static/Australia2014_Reasons_TDs_Static_LB.html/5550366558464c36474a45414338754d" target="_blank"><img width="728" height="90" style="border: 0px solid black; border-image: none;" alt="" src="http://imageceu1.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/Guardian/Australia2014_Reasons_Feb2014_TDs_LB_Static/Aus_728x90.gif/1392058008"></a>

</div>
     </div>

image

benhoIIand commented 10 years ago

Have you been able to reproduce this? Or was it a one time thing?

michaelmcnamara commented 10 years ago

Reproduceable. Suspect it is related to being served an ad that uses flash. Got it this morning on IE11 loading the network front. Ad served was the OVO energy ad

michaelmcnamara commented 10 years ago

Comment from user: "Following your advice, I compared Guardian Beta in Chrome and IE 11 and the problem with IE 11 seems to be that the banner ads at the top of each page take ages to load. If I try to do anything else while the add is loading (scroll or click), the page freezes completely. Everything works fine in Chrome and I do like the cleaner feel of the new version.

Isabel "

mstorijo commented 10 years ago

I don't think this is an issue anymore, so closing this. If we get complaints about speed we will look at this again.