[TEST] Long-form: A practical guide to header bidding timeouts
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Why timeouts matter
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The trade-off in one list
- Shorter timeouts load ads faster but drop late bids
- Longer timeouts collect more bids but delay the page
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Steps to tune them
- Measure bidder response times
- Set a starting timeout
- Review win rate and latency weekly
- Adjust per device type
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Example configuration
pbjs.setConfig({
bidderTimeout: 1200,
priceGranularity: 'dense',
enableSendAllBids: true
});Sample results table
| Timeout (ms) | Avg bids | Win rate | Page delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 800 | 4.1 | 61% | +120 ms |
| 1200 | 5.6 | 68% | +310 ms |
| 1600 | 6.0 | 69% | +540 ms |
| 2000 | 6.1 | 69% | +780 ms |
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About the author
Founder, BidCliq
Sharad Yadav is the founder of BidCliq, a publisher-first ad monetization platform that helps publishers and ad ops teams run header bidding, Prebid and programmatic across display, video, app and CTV. Before BidCliq, he led AdTech and product at GeeksforGeeks, where he built an in-house ads product that doubled programmatic revenue within nine months and an anti-adblock solution that lifted ad yield by 10%. He is a founding member of AdCP.