Does Geotargeting Slow Down Your Site?

I'm not sure if this is just on my site, but has anyone else found that geotargetting ads or anything on your site slows down the loading time?

I have found that a page take a little longer to load if there is geotargetting on it. The biggest problem comes when the rest of the page will not load until the geotargetted ad has been outputted to the browser, and so the time it takes for delivery of content is increased.

Does/should geotargeting slow down page loads? Is there anything that I could do to prevent geotargeting from slowing down my web pages?

Any advice or help would be much appreciated.

 

It is most likely your coding that needs to be more efficient.

 

I'm using a popular script, so I'm hoping that it will have been coded quite well.

The script does track clicks and fetch some information from a database however, so is this what could be slowing page loads down?

Also, is it normal to prevent the rest of a page loading before the php code has been parsed? Is there any way to allow to php to parse whilst the the rest of the site loads normally without delay?

 

Yes, call the ads script as an external page as Google Adsense does.

 

Sounds interesting. Is this using an iframe? What are the disadvatages of doing it this way?

 

It depends on the host. It should take around .1 second to compute the location, however, some servers might have too many hits it becomes much slower.

Peace,