The page load speed of my site isn't what I would like, and one of the things that various tests have thrown up is that third party services (e.g. Google Analytics, Google Translator) are contributing to this.
How can they be made to load last, so that a visitor is able to see the rest of the content without waiting for these services? Google Analytics shouldn't be making a significant difference. Is everything else on your pages optimised (ie images, css files, javascript etc) as these are things you control that can be changed, you can't change 3rd party sites. I would suggest using a tool like pingdom that will show you how long each element on your page is taking to load. It was by using pingdom that I identified what some of the problems are.
GA was just an example, there are other services as well and it is their combined affect that is the issue.
There are quite prossibly other page load speed factors that could be addressed, but for the moment I just want to concentrate on this one.
This was actually brought up by someone else in another thread, but as it was off-topic it was suggested it could have a thread of its own. No-one else started one, and as I wanted the answer as well I did! Oh I see,
Well I know that despite the fact google tells you to put GA code in the head, I always put it right before the closing tag of the body content, hence it loads last. Not sure what control you have over the other elements you talk about. Are they code snippets that you could put at the bottom of the page? I hadn't even thought of anything so simple as moving it to the bottom the page!! I thought it would be something much more complicated
Thank you very much, I will give it a try with each service in turn and see what happens. I would suggest you to move those scripts (of Google Analytics and Translate) to the bottom of the page, then only your page will load faster. And another recommendation is to use any 3rd party scripts always in the bottom of the web page to speed up the page load time. Quote: Originally Posted by Turkey Property
I hadn't even thought of anything so simple as moving it to the bottom the page!! I thought it would be something much more complicated
Thank you very much, I will give it a try with each service in turn and see what happens. I don't know if i missed this but what software does the site run on?
There are ways to speedup preformance for WordPress as in using w3 total cache, CDN services..etc
How can they be made to load last, so that a visitor is able to see the rest of the content without waiting for these services? Google Analytics shouldn't be making a significant difference. Is everything else on your pages optimised (ie images, css files, javascript etc) as these are things you control that can be changed, you can't change 3rd party sites. I would suggest using a tool like pingdom that will show you how long each element on your page is taking to load. It was by using pingdom that I identified what some of the problems are.
GA was just an example, there are other services as well and it is their combined affect that is the issue.
There are quite prossibly other page load speed factors that could be addressed, but for the moment I just want to concentrate on this one.
This was actually brought up by someone else in another thread, but as it was off-topic it was suggested it could have a thread of its own. No-one else started one, and as I wanted the answer as well I did! Oh I see,
Well I know that despite the fact google tells you to put GA code in the head, I always put it right before the closing tag of the body content, hence it loads last. Not sure what control you have over the other elements you talk about. Are they code snippets that you could put at the bottom of the page? I hadn't even thought of anything so simple as moving it to the bottom the page!! I thought it would be something much more complicated
Thank you very much, I will give it a try with each service in turn and see what happens. I would suggest you to move those scripts (of Google Analytics and Translate) to the bottom of the page, then only your page will load faster. And another recommendation is to use any 3rd party scripts always in the bottom of the web page to speed up the page load time. Quote: Originally Posted by Turkey Property
I hadn't even thought of anything so simple as moving it to the bottom the page!! I thought it would be something much more complicated
Thank you very much, I will give it a try with each service in turn and see what happens. I don't know if i missed this but what software does the site run on?
There are ways to speedup preformance for WordPress as in using w3 total cache, CDN services..etc