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.
FAQ: Why is my page speed still low after disabling ads?
Even after disabling ads, you may still experience a lower page speed score. This can be due to the following reasons:
Possible Causes
Too Many Article Blocks on the Page
If your page includes multiple sections featuring articles, such as category-specific articles, a large number of requests are sent to the server. This increases the time needed to load and render the page.
Raw HTML Elements Containing Scripts
Raw HTML blocks remain in the DOM even after enabling the option to disable third-party scripts. If these blocks contain scripts, they will still be executed, potentially slowing down the page.
Solutions
Reduce the Number of Article Blocks
If possible, remove unnecessary article sections to decrease the number of requests and improve loading speed. If all sections are needed, be aware that keeping them may affect page performance.
Optimize Script Loading
If your advertisement agency inserts scripts within raw HTML elements, ask them to move these scripts to the global scripts section instead. This ensures that JavaScript files are loaded in a more optimized way without affecting page speed test results.