lemme know what you think of ShareThis

A good way to avoid loading problems for javascript is to load them inside an iframe or (if you're good at CSS) an absolute DIV that loads at the end of the page. Either way will ensure your content loads first, and fastest.

That being said, I didn't notice any slowness at all.

A good way to avoid loading problems for javascript is to load them inside an iframe or (if you're good at CSS) an absolute DIV that loads at the end of the page. Either way will ensure your content loads first, and fastest.

JavaScript should ideally go in a single script block *after* the HTML document body; that way the whole page content renders before the JS gets parsed and run.

That said, I doubt the ShareThis is impacting page load times on MAJ's site anywhere near as much as all the ad content and the associated CSS and JavaScript (I counted more than fifteen JavaScript includes on the site home page). So as long as all of the assorted ad content is there -- which I totally understand is a necessary evil -- I think the ShareThis link probably has no net impact.

It takes more than six minutes for me to load any given page on this site through my high speed DSL connection now. Most of this time seems to be spent waiting for "ll.atdmt.com" to respond. I'm not sure if that's related to the ShareThis or if it's one of your ad servers, but it's making the site pretty much unusable for me.

Most of this time seems to be spent waiting for "ll.atdmt.com" to respond. I'm not sure if that's related to the ShareThis or if it's one of your ad servers, but it's making the site pretty much unusable for me.

I don't see ll.atdmt.com in any of the scripts on this page either. the main atdmt.com page says it's a part of Atlas Solutions... But I've reloaded this site a couple dozen times looking for that URL in my scripts list, and it isn't showing up. My best guess is you've got some spyware on your system, JSW. Try running some ant-malware and anti-spyware programs like MalwareBytes and Spybot.

Then again, if flickfilosopher is the only website that isn't loading for you, it's gotta be something here... unfortunately I don't see it :(

Also, speaking of ads and such. MaryAnn have you looked into ProjectWonderful.com? It is amazingly cool (and lucrative).

Six minutes is ridiculous. How long has that been happening?

Just a couple of days.

I don't see ll.atdmt.com in any of the scripts on this page either. the main atdmt.com page says it's a part of Atlas Solutions... But I've reloaded this site a couple dozen times looking for that URL in my scripts list, and it isn't showing up. My best guess is you've got some spyware on your system, JSW. Try running some ant-malware and anti-spyware programs like MalwareBytes and Spybot.

I'm running Firefox on Linux and have tried loading the page from two different computers, getting the same problem on both. The ll.atdmt.com problem only seems to occur on article pages like this one. On the main page, it's widget.sharethis.com that causes the delays.

Project Wonderful is an ad service that allows advertisers to bid on ad space in real time. So if there is an increase in traffic it drives up the ad revenue.

It's become rather big in the webcomic world and other types of sites that are based around regular updates. You may have seen it in the form of little "Your ad here, right now: $XX.XX" boxes under some ad space.

The whole process is open so you could take a look and see what other web sites with similar traffic are making.

You know, as in money! :) Ryan H summed it up pretty nicely.

My sites don't get near as much traffic as yours do, I'm sure, but they pay for themselves (and a little extra) solely through PW ads.

Oh, and the loss of the email feature is a non event. any email consisting of 'check out this website' from a non personal address is going to get filtered by 99% of spam walls anyways.

www.projectwonderful.com is always a fun alternative to ads.

Holy crap. I made my PW post without reading any other posts.

:|

There already was a PW conversation going on. :O

We've received tons of valuable feedback in regard to the ShareThis load times, and the consensus is that ShareThis just needs to be faster. We couldn't agree more, and we have good news! We're undergoing a back-end redesign that will overhaul ShareThis with some serious optimization solutions.

First off, all of the ShareThis code is being completely optimized for efficiency and speed. This new optimized code is then tightly compressed with Yahoo! User Interface Compressor to reduce its overall byte footprint. Also, all 'heavy' processing will use AJAX to pass requests to our servers after the widget is loaded for total caching of the widget's HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Most importantly ShareThis will utilize a content delivery network (CDN) from Akamai for near 100% uptime and super fast delivery.

What this means for you: a ShareThis widget that will load instantly. Look for these optimizations in Q3.

I'm not sure if this is related but I'm really getting tired of the MIME/Quicktime prompts I seem to get on this site every time I access it from a certain location. The funny thing is that I can access all my regular sites just fine.

It's just this one that has a problem.

Apparently, it just started a week ago, but I am beginning to suspect that it has more to do with the computer in question than anything on your end. After all, I don't have the same problem when I log on from a different computer. Whenever I use a certain computer--not mine but one I have access to--however, the screen blanks out every time I link to your home page, only to return to normal after a few seconds. So I guess the long-term answer for me is: don't use that particular computer anymore.

Oh, well. Apart from that, I've had no problems.