Garden web pages slow loading

20 years ago

More and more the Garden Web Pages have loaded slower and slower. Other web pages I go to load at the normal speed. I'm thinking it's all the ads with their flashing lights and frolicking beach goers. Just wondering if anyone else is having this problem and if it is this web site?

Bob

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grwleye
20 years ago
I agree with you.
siegel2
20 years ago
Same here!
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calistoga_al ca 15 usda 9
20 years ago
When they are loading you can read the names of the various advertising companies, they load first. Al
xanadu
20 years ago
Wait for this thread to disappear. Criticism not allowed. I can no longer load pages with embedded photos, possibly because I've got pop-up blockers, flash-ad inhibitors etc, running overtime.
CA Kate z9
20 years ago
GW once was the only fast thing on my dial-up modem, alas, that is gone as well.
renuka
20 years ago
Yup, ditto with my dial-up. I don't like being edged toward broadband. I've been out of the country for a while (sweden) without internet, and the new GW format takes some getting used to.
jenn
20 years ago
Definitely! And we have cable.
1janetta0
20 years ago
It is maddening !!!!
caflowerluver
20 years ago
I have the fastest DSL and it can be slow especially when there is pictures. What can you do?
Maureen Janda
20 years ago
And, often it just hangs up while sending the ad portion and never gets to the forum message. I find I have to hit the browser BACK key, go back to the forum index and choose the message again to get past the ad.
Also, those double underlined green hyperlinks are most intrusive.
Karen Mickleson
20 years ago
What can you do?

Get a Mac? I never see ads on GW using Safari, and don't have slow load probs w/cable. Don't know if it makes any diff, but I'm a contributing member.
tressa
20 years ago
Thought it was me - so I installed some extra spyware......that didn't help. It is so frustrating I don't visit as much as I would like to..............
tracy_m
20 years ago
I'm using my network at work (shhhh, don't tell my boss - yes, I know they know) and I am having the same problem. Freezes up on some posts.
kathi_mdgd
20 years ago
Same here,that's why i come here less and less.Some things take forever and a day and i also have cable.None of the other sites i go to has this problem.Also it doesn't make any difference if you pay or not,i see paying members complaining about the same thing.
Kathi
Temecula
20 years ago
Same with me! I also have cable!
I hardly visit anymore . . . too annoyingly slow!
Chilidawg
20 years ago
I am using Firefox with extensions Adblock and NoScript and the pages load fairly quickly:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

https://addons.mozilla.org/?application=firefox
davissue_zone9
20 years ago
I agree with Chilidawg, using Firefox, I don't notice anything being a problem. I am a paying member if that makes a difference. Firefox is free, less prone to viruses and spyware, and easy to download and intall, here's the link below in case you're interested. Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: get firefox!