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Don't forget to block ads!
Authored by: Thom on May 05, '05 02:00:16PM
Thought I should mention that it was this hint that reminded me, I'd been meaning to redo my 'hosts' file in order to block a bunch of ad servers. If your computer is skipping loading a bunch of ads from various sources, that would CERTAINLY speed up the load times of pages!

For example, I use a few sites whose ad servers are so overloaded that they hold up page loads, waiting for them to serve you an ad. What a crock!

Of course, to be fair to Rob, consider removing the 'backbeatmedia' entries. ;)

You can find a good article on it here.

On my machine, I turned on web sharing (apache) and I set up the 'catch-all' 404 error document to just return a simple 13 x 13 grey box I found on google image search. The web is a lot less busy for me now.

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