Originally Posted by
Cliff I wonder if they're referring to the chatbox itself that takes a while to load?
Nope.
The effort in appreciated nonetheless!
I have resolved the issue. It had nothing to do with the load time on the shoutbox as I am not at all concerned with that. The issue was with every thread I tried to load, regardless of which section of the forum I was in, classifieds, general, off-topic etc. The page would would just take an incredibly long time to load, which slowed down the functionality of scrolling, selecting items to click on, pictures/vids loading etc. It was causing some minor "page freeze" as well at times. It was only on sr20-forum.com.
So, after some research, it turns out that the culprit was "cid.pardot.com". This is a third-party (advertising) tracking cookie used for information gathering for forum advertisers or other-party advertisers (<- makes sense?). My browser would read "trying to find cid.pardot.com" or "connecting to cid.pardot.com" and would switch back and forth between the two, but would take a considerable amount of time to complete. I am not sure if this has anything to do with the shoutbox or not but I only noticed the cid. tracking cookie around the same time of the implementation of the shoutbox. Not sure if coincidence or not?
Anyway, I blocked cid.pardot.com and all of it's off-shots and The Dash now loads every page in a lightning quick fashion!!
Maybe this can help somebody else!!
Originally Posted by
AaroNX Chatbox is still complete shit for me. Can't keep up since it scrolls backwards and makes the entire forum slower.
See above. Might be helpful to you.