trackers are delaying page rendering and posting

[svenmany]

I can't quite remember when this started, maybe it's been a few weeks. I get a lot of delays and failures on Macrumors when trying to render pages and make posts. This used to be a problem and then went away for some time. The problem seems to be related to trackers and how the website's content rendering blocks until the trackers timeout.

It's kind of overwhelming the amount of tracking this site attempts that I block (I could provide a list of blocked domains if asked). This morning I tried to pay attention to any timeouts that happened at the moment that a page rendered after a delay. The timeout was from the s.skimreasources.com domain. I'm not sure if the same domain is responsible for other delays.

Is there any way that the website can be fixed to not depend on trackers in order to function properly?

 

[chown33]

If the cited domain name skimreasources.com is correct and not a typo, then that appears to be an error in the site's page resources. There's an "a" between "re" and "sou" that produces an invalid name.

ping -c3 s.skimreasources.com
ping: cannot resolve s.skimreasources.com: Unknown host

Possibly related to Flashes Of Unstyled Content noted here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/403-error-access-denied-appeared-26th-november.2444055/post-33592432

 

[svenmany]

I absolutely did typo it; sorry about that. Here's a line from the console:

[Info] Content blocker prevented frame displaying https://forums.macrumors.com/ from loading a resource from https://s.skimresources.com/js/73726X1523008.skimlinks.js

 

[svenmany]

I wonder if the title of my post should reflect that the problem might only be with skimresources. Other Macrumors access attempts are blocked by DuckDuckGo Privacy Protection:

https://syndication.twitter.com/i/jot/embeds
https://cdn.onesignal.com/sdks/OneSignalSDK.js
https://syndication.twitter.com/i/jot/embeds

and some other requests are blocked by the standard blocklists of Little Snitch:

https://tt.onthe.io/
https://www.googletagmanager.com/
https://www.google-analytics.com/

But, I haven't witnessed any of these causing delays in the short amount of time I've been monitoring it.

 

[arn]

This may be an intermittent skimresources issue. I'll see if I can adjust that to avoid any rendering issues.

The rest of the "trackers" are pretty basic, and shouldn't hold up site rendering:

Twitter - so twitter embeds render properly
Onesignal - push notification service
on the.io / google - analytics / page view counters

arn