Topics pages with YouTubes very slow to finish loading

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Very jittery during loading of topics which contain several YouTube video links. Long time during the page loading, so can't click on anything reliably or to scroll up or down UNTIL the page finishes loading. Fifteen, twenty, thirtyfive seconds while waiting for the forum page to fully load.
Example is this: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/favorite-songs-new-thread.933940/page-13#post-6023781
 
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That appears to be a buffering problem on the Internet, or perhaps a slow server. I didn't catch all of the info on the first loading, but page refreshes execute immediate.
 
Works OK for me.

Can you watch videos when you go to youtube?
 
Borek said:
Works OK for me.

Can you watch videos when you go to youtube?
watching videos is fine; its just the long wait while the forum topics load, containing the many links to the videos.
No kidding - wait about 20 to 40 seconds for the forum page to fully load when there're links to YouTube videos.
 
Ah, found it! Those three videos are downloading to your machine, all 6000+ packets. Just tested my download speed at 93Mb/s and those 6000+ packets took about 30sec. That's about 20 minutes of video, and they all report an error message of "this video is unavailable". :cry: :headbang:
 

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