DFP now officially supports asynchronous rendering!

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Yesterday, DFP launched asynchronous ad loading. For the past few months ive been trying to load ads in a manner where it doesn't affect rest of the page load, this new development is like a dream come true. (The tests above were run on webpagetest.org on IE8 at Dulles, VA) Thank you ...

Complete Asynchronous ad loading using DFP and LABjs

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

UPDATE: The hack is now available on GitHub. 8th May 2011: This seems to be having problems, will investigate and update when i have time. Pls revert to normal DFP tags for now. One of the biggest challenges when optimizing performance of websites is third party content - specifically advertisements. Most ad networks ...

Optimizing DFP performance

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

Ive been using DFP (DoubleClick for Publishers - formerly Google Ad Manager) to serve ads as it has some certain features I really need. The downside of using DFP is that its browser side performance sucks big time. On my site, I use the experimental Iframe tagging, which basically writes an ...