Page jumps on mobile

[Anonymous]

For the past two or three days dcum has been very jumpy on my mobile. When I load the page I will zoom in to read or post and the page will jump around. I think it has to do with the ads loading but I have not noticed if it’s an ad in particular. I’m curious if it’s happening to anybody else or if it’s just me.

[jsteele]

I’m using my iPhone right now and nothing like that is happening.

[Anonymous]

I will pay closer attention to see if there’s a connection with certain ads. I don’t think it’s just my phone because it does not happen on any other website. Thanks for checking .

[Anonymous]

Mine does this too, when loading and has for many months. So many times I've clicked on a thread then the page jumps and sends me to a different thread. Android FWIW.

[jsteele]

Maybe try clearing you're cache. It's possible that some code is stuck there and causing this issue.

[Anonymous]

Hi Jeff- I think I’ve noticed a pattern. When the Sahara belly dance class is trying to load on the top banner ad space that’s when I noticed that it jumps around. It tries to load the ad but then it either changes the ad or does not load at all. It might be happening with other ads but that one’s noticeable because of the color.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jeff- I think I’ve noticed a pattern. When the Sahara belly dance class is trying to load on the top banner ad space that’s when I noticed that it jumps around. It tries to load the ad but then it either changes the ad or does not load at all. It might be happening with other ads but that one’s noticeable because of the color.

Does the jumping happen on every page load, or just once in a while?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jeff- I think I’ve noticed a pattern. When the Sahara belly dance class is trying to load on the top banner ad space that’s when I noticed that it jumps around. It tries to load the ad but then it either changes the ad or does not load at all. It might be happening with other ads but that one’s noticeable because of the color.

Does the jumping happen on every page load, or just once in a while?

When I first posted a few days ago it was happening every time but today was the first time it’s happened in a couple days and not as often.

[jsteele]

I now have a theory. It's kind of a long shot and I'm not sure it I can explain it clearly, but it is something I noticed using a desktop browser.

When the page loads, the first thing to load is the underlying HTML page. That page has links to include other files such as graphics and ads. These included objects load later. All of the "boxes" where the images and ads load should have predefined sizes in the HTML so there should be, for instance, a 729x90 box where the top banner ad goes even before the ad loads. What I see once in a while is that a very large square box appears where the 728x90 top banner should go. That large box then quickly resizes to 729x90 and then the ad loads. What is strange is that this doesn't happen every time. I have no idea what could be causing the large box to briefly appear, but maybe there is some old HTML or CSS someplace that gets loaded and then overridden by newer code. I'll try to look around for such a thing.

But, if this theory is correct, what is happening to you is that the large box pushes everything down for you, then the box resizes and everything moves up. Does that sound like what you are seeing?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:I now have a theory. It's kind of a long shot and I'm not sure it I can explain it clearly, but it is something I noticed using a desktop browser.

When the page loads, the first thing to load is the underlying HTML page. That page has links to include other files such as graphics and ads. These included objects load later. All of the "boxes" where the images and ads load should have predefined sizes in the HTML so there should be, for instance, a 729x90 box where the top banner ad goes even before the ad loads. What I see once in a while is that a very large square box appears where the 728x90 top banner should go. That large box then quickly resizes to 729x90 and then the ad loads. What is strange is that this doesn't happen every time. I have no idea what could be causing the large box to briefly appear, but maybe there is some old HTML or CSS someplace that gets loaded and then overridden by newer code. I'll try to look around for such a thing.

But, if this theory is correct, what is happening to you is that the large box pushes everything down for you, then the box resizes and everything moves up. Does that sound like what you are seeing?

YES. That's most likely it. I'm on my lap top right now so I don't notice it. I'll post again if I see the jumping happen. Thanks for looking into this.

[jsteele]

I made a couple of changes which may have corrected this issue, but I'm kind of shooting in the dark because I rarely see this issue. Therefore, I can't tell whether or not I've fixed it.