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In this video, we’re show you why third-party content (also called external content) affects the performance of your site.
Any file—such as an image, CSS file, or JavaScript file—that’s hosted on a domain other than your own is considered, ‘third-party.’ Some common examples are social media widgets, YouTube videos, Google fonts, Google Analytics, or ads from a network you may have signed up with.
These types of files can seriously slow down the performance of your site and cause page load times to increase. So, what can you do about it? Let’s dive in.