Comments on: Blazing Fast Ads, Don’t Let OpenX Slow You Down

By: jal

jal — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:38:37 +0000

What about the number of http requests from the client side?

Yes SPC reduces http requests to the ad server. But when someone visits
the site they have 21 http requests to the server in order to download 20 banners to their browser…

Francine, it sounds like you might have a solution for this? But I couldn’t quite follow what you did.

I guess I’m trying to find a way to suture all the javascript invocations so there’s 1 javascript file-- thereby resulting in 1 http request from the client side for all the ads.

An external javascript file would also be cacheable further reducing load times.

Anyone have any ideas?

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:37:49 +0000

Jesse: I am editorial director of several websites using OpenX and Wordpress. Can you please email me (joe [at] NineLivesMediaInc.com). I'm located in NY and would welcome the opportunity to discuss the potential fixes you mentioned above.
-jp

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:15:41 +0000

I've been pretty happy using the self hosted version but for those who are
using the Openx hosted version this may be helpful. It is still on my list
of things to improve once I have some time to set aside for it but overall I
am very happy with the results I have gotten from it.

By: Francine

Francine — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:51:48 +0000

I was able to speed things up even more by making the javascript file local — just copying the linked js file into a file on my server and calling that one. It makes a noticeable difference from calling the remote file. I would still like to load it after the rest of the page like some of you, too. There is still a slight delay with when some information shows up on the page because of OpenX, but it's only by about a second.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:06:49 +0000

I'd definitely be a fan of that implementation, keep me posted on how the
“fix” works out for you :-)