Deere advert

[JerryG]

Not to any one person. Some of you should really try the Mozilla SeaMonkey browser. You can customize just how much you want or don't want, specific to just about everything. You also don't have to worry about viruses or addware to speak of. I normally run with just about everything on. Maybe I should change that, because the pokey JD tractor is still slowing things down.

 

[EddieWalker]

Since the Deere ad started, I just go to another website when I want to open another forum here. I know it will take a little time for it to run it's course, so it's like a bad commercial. I just change the channel and come back later when it's over.

What I've always wondered is how many people actually buy a product that annoys you all the time? Our local Chevy dealer had those loud, in your face ads on TV all the time. After a few years of that, he's out of business and the Nissan dealer now owns that dealership.

Eddie

 

[BillyP]

I use two or three windows to view TBN. After I've got the first one loaded, I'll read it while the others are loading. Then while I'm reading the second one, I'm loading another. Seems faster anyway. The JD ad really slows things down, takes right at twice as long for a page to load.

 

[gordon21]

I just timed the moving banner twice. From the time I entered the site until all the various forums popped up was 7-8 seconds. Once the forums or the 1,6,12,24 hour choice pops up you can then go to your choice without waiting foir the banner to finish. I thought my customers were impatient, but a 7-8 second wait is too much ???

 

[Hakim]

Lewis,

There are many factors that determine exactly how quickly particular sites, screens, banners or ads load.

The load you claim is taking 7 or 8 seconds, is not what is experienced by the overwhelming majority of our users.

Since we know from our own tests that the most of the site itself loads in a second or two, the "cause" of your slow loading time cannot be remedied by anything we could do.

The TBN site is designed to accommodate most average users. From time to time, some people have longer load times. It is not due to the TBN site loading slowly, but to individual operating systems variables, video card configurations, or memory, or virus checking or other system software, or ???

Virtually every commercial site on the Internet has some kind of advertising. Various kinds of ads come and go, and we are always evaluating the types we run here on TBN. For the vast majority of users, TBN continues to be one of the best performing web sites they visit.

We truly do sympathize with those who had speed problems, but according to our programmers, it is not due to our site itself, but to hardware, software and configuration issues of individual users.

 

[BillyP]

I just did an unofficial test. I hit refresh on a non JD ad page and it took 13 seconds. I hit refresh on a page that had the two JD ads and it took 25 seconds to load. That's with a 46.6 Kbps dial up.

I'm not arguing with you but this slow loading happens every time theirs a JD ad/s.

 

[Inspector507]

No JD ad here. Firefox with Adblock takes any of them out that you want removed.

 

[Soundguy]

Just a thought here.. but what about disabling macromedia... I'm guessing the other browsers do not use macromedia ?? is that sort of banner handling built in as opposed to add on, as in win/ie6 ?? When i did a test with my macromedia turned way down.. load times got way better.. however many inet sites sufferd as it appears many sites are using at least a little bit of flash code apparently..

Soundguy

 

[Inspector507]

The good thing about Firefox and Adblock is that it's site specific. You decide what you want removed from each site.

 

[BillyP]

Jerry, I want to thank you for the info about Firefox and Adblock. I just downloaded it and couldn't believe my eyes. It makes TBN load incredibly fast. I would suggest to anyone that hasn't tried it to do it NOW. Now I'm off to find a spell checker that will work with Firefox.

Thanks again