Comments on: Website Loading Slowly? You Can Probably Blame Ads

By: Ryan Sullivan

Ryan Sullivan — Wed, 05 May 2021 12:32:56 +0000

In reply to Eve.

Hey Eve, shoot us a note and we’ll be happy to take a look for you: https://sitecare.com/contact/. Thanks!

By: Eve

Eve — Tue, 04 May 2021 14:23:24 +0000

Yes, I’d love to know if its my SHEMedia ads slowing down my site as I have horrible core web vitals right now. Thank you

By: Akinade Eniolabi

Akinade Eniolabi — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 18:38:46 +0000

Ads are a great nemesis for most sites but they are inevitable. Sometimes when I check my site through gtmetrix, I could see a number of redirects caused by AdSense ads which are slowing down my page rendering. If you use WordPress plugins like w3 total cache, it might help to cache some of the frequent requests made to your database so as to minimize http requests while loading your page. I also find the Minify function and object cache highly useful for a dynamic site.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:33:19 +0000

Hi, I just did a speed test on pingdom and found the Amazon affiliate ads are slowing things down, at least according to pingdom. However, if I understand this article correctly, affiliate ads are supposed to be a solution. Any suggestions are appreciated. I use siteground with cloudflare for CDN.

Best regards,
Don

By: Zubair Akhtar

Zubair Akhtar — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 17:39:20 +0000

Wow! this article cleared all my concepts about website loading speed specially about ads.

By: Alex Al-Mas'ri

Alex Al-Mas'ri — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 02:48:56 +0000

Hate to be that guy but one little math critique for an otherwise excellent bit of information. An increase from 2.33 MB to 3.55 MB is not an increase of 152%, it’s an increase of roughly 52%, or otherwise stated: with ads enabled, the number grew to 152% of what it was with ads blocked, which is probably what you were trying to say.

I’m sure no one failed to get what you meant after thinking about it for a second or two, but it just looks better for the math to be accurately stated on a technical-kinda article. That’s all.

By: Amber Bracegirdle

Amber Bracegirdle — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:13:23 +0000

Absolutely love this post. I’m a co-founder of Mediavine Publisher Network, and speed is one of our top priorities.

This is why we only load the first two (maybe three, if the publisher chooses to run the optional leaderboard position) in first byte.

They’re asynchronous. Everything else on the page is lazy loaded. That means it doesn’t exist until a reader scrolls near it, and won’t impact your site speed or your viewability score (important for ads).

We’ve done some tests and found that running things this way means we can load up to 200% faster than our competitors. We’ve got a blog post about it, but I’m not going to be that weirdo posting links to our own site in a comment.

It’s pretty nuts, but we’re obsessed with speed because we also run these ads on our own sites (we still own and operate three content driven websites to this day).

Thank you for such a fantastic explanation as to why ads suck. We totally agree. We just try to make them suck less.

By: Vignesh

Vignesh — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 15:58:21 +0000

In reply to Jaskaran Singh. Hi, Please check the p3 plugin from godaddy. Hopefully it helps.

By: Jaskaran Singh

Jaskaran Singh — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 10:12:41 +0000

Very nice post but can you tell that is there any plugin for this which helps us in mantaining our website speed. Because wordpress provides lots of plugins for the optimization of the website like wp optimize or super cache etc. Can anyone help me?????????

By: ken

ken — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 01:11:26 +0000

nice article bro……could it be also caused by the theam installed on the wordpress?…please help me with possible solution as i have tried all i could.. thank you a await your respons