Pursuant to another thread here, I again updated my ad_network.php file, and it had seemed to be working fine. But this morning I again had one of the dreaded emails. I opened the site front page in one tab and the network validation page for the site in another. While the site front page shows the ads just fine, the validator, on a half dozen successive tries, told me that there are no co-op ads on the site front page. The site is: http://seo-toys.com It had previously validated using the same setup as at present. I am using the exact same network php file (not exact copies, but literally the same file) for several domains, and--so far--this is the only one to re-develop the validation problem. Arghh.
It looks like the request is timing out. I think it might be your weather thing on the page (which eventually shows "unavailable"). Even when I load it with a browser it takes about a minute to pull up the page.
Hmm. When I load it on a sloooww connection (28.8), it takes about 10 - 15 seconds for the whole page to load. But I do realize that at times it's slower--it depends on the speed of the XML feed of the incoming weather data (which is a real drag if, as apparently happened in your case, it never does come in). Is it possible to use a longer timeout value at your end? I know you have server-load issues, but can I be the only one with a page that is occasionally slow? Thanks again.
I am still having the same problem. On my very slow 28.8k dialup, the site front page takes, right now, an estimated 45 seconds to fully load, because it is displaying a whole collection of things that each take a remote data feed. Is there any way that the timeout can be increased to 60 seconds? I wouldn't think that would increase the overhead much, because the great majority of sites will come in in much less than 60, or 30, seconds, but that would better catch the few--like that one page--that are slow to load. It's bad enough to get the dreaded email almost daily, but it's worse to then not even be able to manually revalidate, even while simultaneously looking at the ad display on the page in question.
Have you thought about caching your remote data feeds rather than get the dynamically every page view? What value does a website actually have to users if it takes 45 seconds to load?
It normally doesn't. That one page has a display of a great number of different toys that would be most unlikely to ever appear together on the same page anywhere else. In any event, what I see is that the page loads down to about the point of the slow toy--usually the weather toy; thus, visitors can be reading the top matter, which is what counts. I can't myself cache the feeds because the results are different for every visitor, being zip-code- and airport-code-based. There would be zillions of different ones, each changing frequently.