2 bunny... I see that delay every once in a while... maybe 1 out of 10 or 15 screen refreshes. But, that delay may have nothing to do with the ads... if it were the ads then I'd think they would delay on refreshes from time to time and they don't. The header doesn't need to do any database queries when it loads.... the delay happens right before the database driven content is fetched... and that could be the delay. It may be something related to connections to MySQL. I can tell you that before I moved to the way it is now, the delays on page loading were much worse, and nearly constant when the site was busy. On a daily basis we'd have periods where you couldn't get in at all because of overloading. I will try to find a programmer that can help us look at this particular issue.

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