Slowed down my site loading by 2 seconds

  • After enabling this plugin and getting it configured, I noticed that while testing, my website was showing a blank page for about 2 seconds before displaying content. When I put my site in a speed test, sure enough, it was reported 1.8 seconds before anyone could do anything. After working my way down the list of recently added plugins, I disabled Site Kit and boom, 800ms fully loaded time. Either this plugin doesn’t work with all themes or there’s a serious bug in it. I ended up removing this plugin and using another Google Analytics plugin which has been working fine and not slowing my site down.

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  • Plugin Support James Osborne

    (@jamesosborne)

    Hi @greyaxe90,

    Sorry to read your review on the plugin. I would, however, be happy to assist you with this, should you wish to consider using the plugin once more or wish to troubleshoot any performance related issues.

    In relation to any performance impact Site Kit doesn’t add any performance impacting code to a users site upon install. You can check a sites source code with and without Site Kit active, and you’ll find no additional network requests made and no additional markup other than a meta tag. If, however, users decide to connect services such as Google Analytics or AdSense to their site, whether they use Site Kit or not, there will be additional network requests made to connect your site to these services, and there are various factors here that can slightly impact performance. These are not Site Kit specific network requests, they are service level requests.

    You may wish to compare performance with your site with Google Analytics, Tag Manager and AdSense added manually if you wish, and then using Site Kit to connect the same. I suspect the results will be similar.

    As you mentioned you’re not finding the same performance result using another plugin I’d be happy to take a look over your site if you wish to share your Site Health information. We can then do some additional testing with Site Kit active?

    We also have a guide on the plugin website in relation to site performance, which explains the above in more detail.

    I’ve also noted the same thing, on multiple sites. I’ve put a ticket in support.

    Plugin Support James Osborne

    (@jamesosborne)

    @mgparisi I’ve responded to your support topic now. Let me know if you’re happy for us to do some performance testing, to rule out any Site Kit specific issues on your site.

    @greyaxe90 As mentioned above I’d also be happy to assist you in comparing performance with your code snippets manually placed and then placed via Site Kit. The plugin is a wp-admin operated plugin, and doesn’t add any performance load compared to manually inserted snippets on the front end of a users site.

    Plugin Support James Osborne

    (@jamesosborne)

    Hi @greyaxe90,

    Just to let you know that we’ve added some more details to the plugin website with regards performance. Let me know if we can assist you in any way further.

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