Thursday, February 23, 2006

Need debugging help

I'm watching my load times on my blog. Somewhere something is referring to www.yceml.net which is taking forever to load. Can anyone else tell where it's coming from? Argh.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If your page has a lot of elements (scripts, images, etc.) that are pulled from servers other than your own, your page may be waiting for all of those elements to be served before it loads. If one of those servers is slow or down, your page may not load until the request is fulfilled or times out.

yceml.net is owned by Commission Junction. Do you use that service or are you pulling any content from a CJ server?

Anonymous said...

what he said. everything loaded normally so I don't have a way of checking. If you haven't changed anything, I suspect it was one of the buttons you have on the bottom of your sidebars, and that the server was down.

There are a few ways do deal with this, one is not to have any buttons or links (kinda overkill I think) or to have them load last on the site so that your stuff shows up and you're just waiting on the links(most people will never even notice). Blogrolling is the most frequent culprit on blogs and looking at a blank screen with the waiting on blogrolling.com thing has become a pet peeve of mine.