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Are we supposed to think this is too much HTML for one ad? Because I don't think it is. A lot of it is URLs, and of course you have to have full URLs on an ad,
by ebbv 10y ago
Are we supposed to think this is too much HTML for one ad? Because I don't think it is.
A lot of it is URLs, and of course you have to have full URLs on an ad, you can't use relative.
As for the number of elements, there's quite a few divs but there's also more elements to an ad than people realize due to the built in reporting interface.
Sure a simple banner ad might be able to get away with only two HTML elements (an anchor tag and an image tag), but that image will end up being a lot more data than a text ad with as many elements as this one.
- matt4077 10y agoTo quote one URL http://www.googleadservices.com http://www.googleadservices.com /pagead/aclk? sa=L&ai=DChcSEwi36oSzi5fPAhWBh34KHQO2A0YYABAF &ohost=www.google.com& cid=CAASJORo9LOCMjoibKPv7gF6cak7OxiE3TtM_ tpkLykYWNps5wdfUw&sig=AOD64_3sHUU366i 6dStUuQ_sGYCNCCiv9A&q=&ved=0ahUKE wiswYGzi5fPAhVSVWMKHYoQDjQQ0QwIJQ&adurl=" Thats about 300 digits from an alphabet of 0-9a-zA-Z which my computer says allows for "NaN" unique combinations. They could shorten that by 95% percent and still give every atom a unique id. ... and thats just one URL. There are 4 or five more. For three lines of linked text.
- onestone 10y agoSuch long Base64 URL parameters usually carry encrypted data. So they might be impossible to shorten.
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