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Third-party scripts: the hidden reason your site is slow

How third-party scripts slow a website down, how to audit chat, tracking, reviews and embeds, and how to decide which to keep, delay or remove.

07 Oct 20268 min read

Does a live chat widget slow down your website?

Does live chat slow down a website? How chat widgets affect load time and responsiveness, how to load them without the cost and when to drop them.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Is your cookie banner slowing your website down?

How a cookie banner affects website speed and layout shift, why consent tools can be the slowest thing on a page and how to stay compliant and quick.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Web fonts and page speed: brand type without the wait

How web fonts affect page speed, why custom type causes invisible text and layout shift, and how to keep your brand fonts without slowing the site.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Video backgrounds and autoplay: what they cost in speed

What a video background or autoplay header costs in website speed, how it affects mobile visitors and how to keep video without delaying the page.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Website animations: when motion makes a site feel slow

When website animations slow a site down: scroll effects, preloaders and parallax, what they cost on phones and how to use motion without the wait.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Tracking tags and pixels: how marketing slows your site

How tracking tags and advertising pixels slow a website, how to audit Google Tag Manager and how to keep the measurement you need at lower cost.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Do plugins slow down WordPress? How many is too many

Do plugins slow down WordPress? Why the number matters less than what each one loads, how to find the slow ones and what to replace or remove.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Why your website jumps around while it loads

Why a website jumps around while loading, how layout shift causes mis-taps and lost trust, what Cumulative Layout Shift measures and how to stop it.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Website slow to respond to taps and clicks? Causes and fixes

Why a website is slow to respond to taps and clicks, what Interaction to Next Paint measures, what causes the lag on phones and how to fix it.

07 Oct 20267 min read

How to test website speed the way customers feel it

How to test website speed properly: a real phone, field data, a lab test and a full customer journey, in one hour, with what each result means.

07 Oct 20268 min read

Lab data vs field data: which speed numbers to believe

Lab data vs field data for website speed: what each measures, why they disagree, which one Google uses and how a business should read both.

07 Oct 20267 min read

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