{"id":17637,"date":"2021-11-15T12:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/web-performance\/?page_id=17637"},"modified":"2021-11-15T12:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:51:22","slug":"reduce-the-impact-of-third-party-code","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/web-performance\/lighthouse\/reduce-the-impact-of-third-party-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighthouse Optimizations &#8211; Reduce the Impact of Third-party Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; gap=&#8221;25&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1636408663624{padding-top: 100px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hero-section-with-description-3320.jpg?id=15799) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1636409653940{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #e6eaef !important;}&#8221;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;<b>Reduce the Impact of Third-party Code<\/b>&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|font_size:40|text_align:center|color:%232b2b2b|line_height:1.5&#8243; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1637002200500{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row margin_top=&#8221;40&#8243; margin_bottom=&#8221;30px&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1636409410012{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;What is Third-party Code?&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|font_size:35|text_align:center|color:%232b2b2b|line_height:1.5&#8243; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Third-party code consists of any code or script that is served by another party or from another domain but can be embedded or used on your pages. Examples of third-party code include chat widgets, social buttons, video embeds, digital ads, SEO analytics scripts, etc. Since these elements are not served from your own domain, they can contain scripts that may slow the main-thread work, which as we discussed before, will delay anything else from rendering until the scripts complete. Third-party scripts, if left unchecked, can really impact how quickly your pages load. 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If you decide that there is a need to keep some third-party scripts, you can act by deferring scripts and have only the critical scripts run during the initial download. This ensures other scripts do not get in the way and delay your page\u2019s download and rendering time any further. The last couple of optimizations we have already discussed, and those are using preconnect or dns-prefetch and lazy loading. Again, your goal is to have content loading on your page as quickly as possible. 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