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Yes, yesterday was due to an internet problem due to some of the big players not upgrading their equipment to keep with the growth. We had about 15% drop in traffic mostly early in the day because...

Well, no matter how fast or parallel ads load, they create more rendering work for the browser so they do slow down things, but given the much more significant network problems at the hosting...

I don't think the ads are the problem - they're asynchronous (the page doesn't have to wait for them) and the adserver is google (serving ads is what they're all about).
I think the problem is with...

that's easy to fix, he'll have the counter to 25000 in another minute or two
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There was high load on the server but two hours before this thread and looks like it was caused by one of the hourly cron tasks. That task runs 6 times an hour so it's probably poor handling of an...