Over the past few weeks, we have received a number of complaints about the site being slow or unresponsive, mainly due to various ads that appear on the site.

This is of course, not intentional. At FanGraphs we rely on a combination of advertising, and now membership to support our efforts. It is our goal to have ads that do not hamper the user experience, and may even be of interest to you.

We use a number of advertising networks to provide us with our advertisements, and when there is a rogue ad, sometimes it can be extremely difficult to track down. Ads do not always impact all machines, operating systems, browsers, etc… in the same way, so reproducing errors, and even finding the offending ad can be very tricky.

When we hear about problem ads, we always try and be proactive in getting rid of them. We struggled to track down iOS (iPhone / iPad) App Store redirects for quite a long time (along with much of the publishing industry). This past month, we believe to have finally solved the problem and hope these should no longer be an issue for FanGraphs visitors.

With the current issue, we are going to toggle some advertising switches and we’d like you to tell us if things improved. Generally we only hear if things are broken, but in this case we would like to hear if things are either still broken, or if they have improved.

If today you are still experiencing major issues with FanGraphs on your desktop browser, please post a comment with the browser, how old your machine is, your operating system, and exactly what the problem is. If things have improved, please do the same. You can also fill out the below poll.

Thanks for your help on this!