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We have a request from Ariel Sanguinetti in Capital Federal Argentina.
Ariel wants to know: I’m trying to make my site faster but I noticed that Facebook widgets slows them down should I remove them? I think that is useful for users to see how many people like to page don’t you?
So my rough answer is yes that is useful and my rough answer is do what’s best for the user that’s what’s first and foremost because that’s what’s going to attract more users more loyalty more buzz people linking to you people talking about you that’s the main thing you want to care about
So whenever Google talked about using Page Speed or site speed as a relevant to them possible signal in our scoring results. A lot of people went too far in one direction and are like Ah! I have to get down my site speed, I have to take these two pieces of javascript and have to compress them together all these to be in one file and everything has to be one single image loading.
It’s all going to be perfect and spreaded and that is good for user experience and it is important to pay attention to how fast your site loads and what the user experience is like.
But you don’t have to go overboard, remember if we’re using insider Page Speed in our search results, it’s only one or more than 200 different factors. It doesn’t change that the quality your content and how good your site is and how many you know great blog posts or whatever you have on your site.
Those are the main determinants how well your rank.
So I would recommend getting rid of widgets whether they be for Facebook or whether they be ads or whatever just because the server that’s you remotely talking to is a little bit slower.
There are plenty of ways that you can do things that are what we call a synchronous. So for example, we might look at the time that it takes until you reach the onload event but that doesn’t mean the JavaScript can’t keep happening after the onload event.
So Google Analytics for example now provides a new step it have JavaScript code they will not affect the load time in any significant way and that also is really good for the user experience.
So it’s always possible that Facebook will offer those sort of widgets that are a synchronous, but in the meantime speed is not going to affect the vast majority of sites.
Remember it’s it’s a relatively small percentage of sites that are affected by this, so if it helps user experience in any way I wouldn’t worry that much about whether particular which it is a little bit slower than some other parts at the site.
There will be time to figure out ways to make the web faster.
What we wanted to do is, start the conversation so the people don’t just think about the quality the content, they also think about the quality content as it’s loaded in the real world my web browser to sort a think about the user experience and how compelling that user experiences.
So what we’re doing is just the first small step on that way but it’s already prompted a lot of people to think about this entirely new dimension to their website.
And that’s really useful at the same time you don’t have to go overboard and get to the point where you’re really worrying about whether you include an extra imager to this is something that only affects small percentages sites so the first thing you should be thinking about is how can I make myself better for users and that’s the thing that the main factor.
Quick Answer: Do what’s best for the user