Sometimes, Google Analytics and/or Amazon ads take a while to load depending on their servers. Simplemenu loads last so sometimes the menu takes 1 to 2 minutes to show up. The navigation system should take a priority of advertisements.

Is there a way to get Simplemenu to load before the block regions?

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W.M. commented

Yes, I want to ask the same how to make it load first (before google adsense)?! I am using 6.x-1.2 on drupal 6

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W.M. commented
Version: 5.x-5.0 » 6.x-1.2
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W.M. commented
Version: 6.x-1.2 » 5.x-5.0

I have noticed that enabling cache on site reduces this problem. The problem is especially pronounced in Firefox and is non-existent in chrome.

Thanks for the great tool.

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W.M. commented

The menu appears delayed in IE too... Any ideas how to solve this problem?

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mikeytown2 commented

It loads using jQuery, as such it loads up after the page has been loaded. Try your site in Google Chrome to get the best possible performance case and go from there. You will have to do some trickery to lessen the delay, but there is no real way to avoid the delay with it's current setup. If you don't have Optimize JavaScript files: enabled i recommend doing that. If you can't do that due to private file downloads then I recommend trying out my parallel module (6.x only) to allow for parallel downloading of objects inside the html file. For javascript use one or the other, doing both will not gain you anything since there is only 1 or 2 files to download if you have Optimize JavaScript files enabled. If your on 5.x try this http://drupal.org/project/javascript_aggregator

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W.M. commented

Thanks for the information... I will try to copy an in-built block in a theme called Acquia Marina to my current theme. Acquia Marina has a block that has a configurable drop-down menu. This menu loads simultaneously as the page loads.. I will look for documentation on how to do that..