[Mrs G]

Thank you for reaching out and sharing your experience with the site's performance. I understand that latency can be frustrating.

You’re right ads can sometimes affect page load times, the latency issues experienced recently is purely the result of increased traffic from malicious or suspicious IP addresses. Unfortunately, this overwhelms the server and slows down the site. It took the better part of yesterday to identify and block those IPs.

Bill dealt with this pretty much from the inception of the site and I‘ve watched it progressively get worse year after year.

I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you’ve experienced.