Introduction
Page speed is an important factor in providing a smooth user experience and improving your website’s SEO ranking. Ads on your site can impact page speed, as they introduce additional third-party content that needs to load. To accurately test your page’s performance without ads, Newsifier offers a feature to temporarily disable ads. This allows you to compare how your website performs with and without ad content, helping you understand the impact of ads on page load times.
Below, we’ll explain how you can disable ads for testing purposes and re-enable them after you’ve completed your page speed test.
Steps to Disable Ads for Page Speed Testing
Navigate to the General Settings section in the left-hand menu in the Admin Panel.
Click on the Other tab within the settings.
Scroll down until you find the Disable Ads option.
Select the Disable Ads option and save the settings.
This will disable all ads and other third-party content on the website. It takes approximately 10 to 20 seconds for the changes to take effect on the front end.
Testing Page Speed
Once the ads are disabled, you can use any page speed testing tool (like Google PageSpeed Insights) to analyze your website’s performance. Keep in mind that only ads are disabled—other third-party or embedded content within articles, such as Facebook, Twitter, or video embeds, will still be loaded on the page. These can also affect the speed of your website.
Tip: For a more accurate test, choose an article page that doesn’t include third-party embeds.
Re-Enabling Ads After Testing
Once you’ve completed your test:
Return to the General Settings page in the admin panel.
Re-active the Ads from the Disable Ads option and save your settings.
This will restore the ads on your site, and they should reappear within 10 to 20 seconds.