I need your review, slow and too many ads

This site give me load too slow, how to solve this, I have changed 2 server but no improvement.

The daily hit 1200-1800 ...unique used

Should i remove few ads ?

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i think your site is too messy...

its a 3 column layout right?...but your content is not in the middle...

i think you should have nav and ads at the right content in the middle and other links at the left...organize it more by using background color to separate navs from content...

hope this can help...

 

TQ for the input. I might wanna change the whole theme

 

I am not a friend of orange fonts, hey are not easy to read. If you want to stay with this layout. Yo may move the skyscraper to the column on the left.

 

Site opens in about 5 seconds and loads fully in about 15 seconds on 1,44MB/s connection (checked from Europe).

Speed test results confirms this. Actually this speed as shown from the test is not so bad.

DNS record shows problems with nameservers(check red alerts)

DNS timing shows bad result (F which is the worst from A-F).

I can't say the last word about this, but it can means your hosting is slow (some hosting professional would need to confirm that).

Your hosting server is located in US, so you can expect that your site's visitors from US and Europe will open the site fast, but those from China, Australia - slow.

Alertra.com test shows that your site can be reached in 11 seconds from HongKong and in 6-7 seconds from Europe and US (all tested from fast connections) which are bad results for a server located in US.

Currently there are 474 domains on that server which is moderate, not very crowded.

CONCLUSION:
1. DNS timing is slow, DNS record points out possible hosting server errors and your site is opening especially slow from Asia.

SOLUTION:
Consider to change a hosting server, move your site and it can happen that this is all what will be needed. Before any action please contact some professional (try on webhostingtalk.com ) for confirmation of above hosts tests.

 

The site didn't low all that slow for me.

The layout was...overwhelming though. Too cluttered. It's not about having less ads.. Just put them in better places.

Maybe gut the layout as stated before.


Well, I looked over your site again, and I noticed that you have too many ads. Not for the website but for Google's TOS. If you don't take all those ads off soon you will get banned. You can have a maximum of 3 per page.

 

Flashing banner on the top has 25Kb and slows down loading of the site after opening a lot. Since that banner changes (one has only 8KB and it's not flashing), so visitors experience different loading times. Images/ads on the bottom contribute to slow loading a little also.

 

There aren't too many ads. Google will make sure only three blocks of their ads show ads anyhow. That's not a dealbreaker rule in their TOS. Also: the other ads aren't google ads - and they don't look like google ads, so no problem.

I agree with most people that the lay out needs some more work. I'd darken the orange in the headings and links to a brownish red. You can have the content on the left - no problem, but do make a cleaner distinction between the columns - by changing the background of the middle column, for instance. Though I have no clue how to do that without making the whole thing unbalanced.
The colors in general are loud for western taste, but for Malaysia they may be alright. The orange in the letters is too bright to be easily legible. That's not culture dependent.
I'd move up the 'categories' - that's your main navigation right there. So don't make people scroll before seeing it.

For a site that targets people in Malaysia, get reliable hosting in your region: it will be cheaper AND your visitors will have better download times.

 

Boron,
TQ for your review. I have remove the 468x60 banner, and the loading time has improved a lots.

Check,
I have 3 text ads + and 1 link ads in any of the page, is it against TOS, I dont think so

Michaelangelo,
I will change some ads soon.

Anyway tq guys for your sincere comments

 

kh7,

The hosting I bought from a Malaysia based company and may be they locate their server in US. The theme/colour is choosen by me, I would prefer orange as the target visitor also in the age of 17-25, they love bright colour.

 

sorry...

navigation and ads at the left and other links at the right...

need coffee...

 

i have changed the theme ... hu hu

 

The site is currently not loading for me or timed out... did you remove some of the ads? (I'm running on highspeed also)

 

its ok in my eyes

 

yeahh orange font not eye catching try blue or black and maybe your widget very overload to show can make your site heavy loading

 

Site loads very fast for me im in United Kingdom, on a 2MB Bordband connection.

 

thats good networktown