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301 External Url Redirect Followed by Google Page Speed

Hi

I have an affiliate site which compare prices and then has a click to view merchant button next to each price.

Google obeys robots txt and does not index the redirect urls.

However in google webmaster tools, under labs, site performance. My redirect page is taking on average  9 seconds to load.

Now this is nonsense cos is loads in under a second, but when I used the google online speed checker, it says it followed the 301 redirect and gave results of the merchants landing page :(

So is there a way to get around this, currently I used a straight forward addheader 301 redirect.

I tried setting up a subdomain and linked to that 1st, but google followed the hops of the 301 until the final page :(
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so is there a way to not let the speed check follow the redirect?
I presume using   rel=nofollow  in your links would help that. But check your contract with your affiliates: have you the right to do so?
see http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569
B-) Glad to help. Thx for the grade and points!