Pages loading slowly in 2006

[wavygravy2k]

Right now I'm playing 2006 and Back to the 80's. I'm seeing a big difference in page load times between the two. Anyone else seeing the same?

In the status bar it seems to get hung up at "Waiting for ads.sportingnews.com". I don't recall seeing this in the status bar when a BTT80s page is loading.

[wavygravy2k]

Pages even seem to load slower when viewing them offline.

If you view the source of your team page you see the following. Pages load a little faster if this is removed. Anyone know what this script does?

[code:1:8c976f6b3c]<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
// configuration
OAS_url = 'http://ads.sportingnews.com/RealMedia/ads/';
OAS_sitepage = window.location.hostname + window.location.pathname;
// OAS_sitepage = 'www.site.com/page';
OAS_listpos = 'Bottom,Bottom2,Bottom3,Frame1,Left,Middle,Position1,Right,Top,Top3,TopLeft,TopRight';
OAS_query = '';
OAS_target = '_top';
// end of configuration

OAS_version = 10;
OAS_rn = '001234567890';
OAS_rns = '1234567890';
OAS_rn = new String (Math.random());
OAS_rns = OAS_rn.substring (2, 11);
function OAS_NORMAL(pos)
{
document.write('<A HREF="' + OAS_url + 'click_nx.ads/' + OAS_sitepage + '/1' + OAS_rns + '@' + OAS_listpos + '!' + pos + '?' + OAS_query + '" TARGET=' + OAS_target + '>');
document.write('<IMG SRC="' + OAS_url + 'adstream_nx.ads/' + OAS_sitepage + '/1' + OAS_rns + '@' + OAS_listpos + '!' + pos + '?' + OAS_query + '" BORDER=0></A>');
}
//-->
</script>

<script language=JavaScript1.1>
<!--
OAS_version = 11;
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mozilla/3') != -1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mozilla/4.0 WebTV') != -1)
OAS_version = 10;
if (OAS_version >= 11)
document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript1.1 SRC="' + OAS_url + 'adstream_mjx.ads/' + OAS_sitepage + '/1' + OAS_rns + '@' + OAS_listpos + '?' + OAS_query + '"><\\/SCRIPT>');
//-->
</script>

<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
document.write('');

var keepgoing = true;
function myfunction() { keepgoing = false }

function OAS_AD(pos)
{
window.setTimeout(myfunction,10000);
if (keepgoing) {
if (OAS_version >= 11)
OAS_RICH(pos);
else
OAS_NORMAL(pos);
}
}
//-->
</script>[/code:1:8c976f6b3c]

[wavygravy2k]

With Adblock (Firefox) I added these filters below and the pages seem to load faster.

http://i.sportingnews.com/*
http://ads.sportingnews.com/*