GTMetrix low due to FB links

  • Resolved asc1212

    (@asc1212)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    Hello
    We’re using the wp-facebook-reviews free plugin and have found that GTMetrix is scoring our site low (F) due to “Minimize redirects” associated to your plugin.
    We get “Remove the following redirect chain if possible”, links are to https://graph.facebook.com/ and to https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/ for EACH of the reviews.
    We use W3TC for minifying JS and CSS:
    both wprev-public.js?ver=3.6 and wprs-unslider-min.js?ver=3.6 are minified and embedded in head .
    All 4 CSS are also minified:
    wprev-public_template1.css?ver=3.6
    wprev_w3.css?ver=3.6
    wprs_unslider.css?ver=3.6
    wprs_unslider-dots.css?ver=3.6

    Is this something you can resolve? Is there anything we can do to eliminate this matter?
    Many thanks, Avi

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  • Plugin Author jgwhite33

    (@jgwhite33)

    Those are probably coming from the review Avatars. They get pulled from the FB cdn.

    FB uses a 302 redirect when serving profile pictures through their Graph API. You can read about it here…

    https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/picture/

    They do this in case they need to move the actual image location in the future, then it won’t affect people who are using the graph api to get the images. From what I’ve read, a 302 redirect on an image does not negatively affect SEO for the page calling it. A 302 redirect is generally only bad if you are redirecting your web page to another page. The 302 tells the search engine that the new html page is a temporary page, and does not need to be ranked.

    The Pro version of the plugin allows you to download all the Avatars and serve them from your server, which eliminates the redirects. There isn’t anything that can be done for the Free version. Thanks.

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