{"id":1288,"date":"2011-06-16T10:12:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2011-06-18T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:24:02","slug":"player-bloat-cox-radio-6-mb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"Player Bloat – Cox Radio – 6 MB"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/streaming.y100fm.com\/_players\/coxradio\/index.php?callsign=KCYYFM&referringsite=johngalt.streamingradioguide.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Cox Radio is doing their own thing.\u00a0\u00a0 They used to use StreamAudio, now they are using StreamTheWorld for the actual stream – but not using the lean mean STW player, but instead the TargetSpot streaming ad insertion with extra junk thrown in for good measure thing.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/adm\/player-type.php?playerid=48&action=listall<\/a><\/p>\n

for a nice list.<\/p>\n

After a few preliminary things, the player loads a 550kB flash player object (!)
\ncontacts Google Analytics
\ncontacts TargetSpot
\ncontacts Doubleclick (for the static banner ad)
\nupdates a 2mdn flash cookie
\nlets Quantcast play with the Flash cookies
\nLoads a 3.5 MB flash advertisement
\nbegins downloading a series of ad descriptors from Targetspot to play later
\nstarts downloading ~1 MB of\u00a0graphics and AUDIO\u00a0for those future intersticial ads (the stream hasn’t started yet)
\nreaches out to adfusion to say “Hi!”<\/p>\n

The biggest flaw to this player is there is no reason to be downloading a dozen Targetspot ads into memory before the video preroll ad has downloaded, and before the stream is loaded and going.\u00a0\u00a0 Get the stream going, and then load up the crap in the background as bandwidth permits…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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