Look at the sidebar of adblock plus. It lists contains around 50 pagerank/counter scripts (sort by type)... And some hundret webbugs/1x1gifs! I could not believe my eyes.
Yeah.. you better thank noscript.. when i loaded that page with noscript disabled firefox's memory useage stayed at 100% and eventaully froze up my entire computer. I'd like that congratulate that asshole for the unnecesarry amount of crap, and then drop kick them in the face a few dozen times.
I was looking at the source code .... crazy! Looks like its loading everything in a zillion different languages and THEN picks the one in your 'ping'. WTF!
Urgh. I hadn't looked at the source code. Ew. Nor had I seen the huge sidebar of the bugs. I would've thought they were just out-of-the-way transparent 1x1 GIFs.
After my Internet connection conked out last night, it looks like DNS lookups are much, much faster, so it only took maybe three minutes for all of them to be downloaded, and it must've been delayed a bit by maybe a dozen that didn't load at all.
Edit: Whoo, 465 HTML errors! Maybe I should turn verbose output off. :X