Does Google Adsense slow down your site?

[Cars-blog]

It's a small bit of javascript and doesn't really slow down my site.

[AlbertF]

Google Ads do little to no effect in terms of worrying about your site's loading speed. The only thing they would do is probably about 0.01 second of a difference. No need to worry about loading speed.

[htmlbasictutor]

Beg to differ with those that say the Adsense ads do not slow down a site.

a) You guys evidently didn't try to surf the day Google services were down.
b) I surf a lot and when a site is slow loading a lot of the time it is the 3rd party scripts that are slowing the loading. You can tell what is holding up the load by looking in the browser status bar in the bottom right corner of the browser window (if you have it turned on).

Solution:
Put the scripts at the end of your web page coding and manipulate it's location in your content with CSS. This way the rest of the page content can continue to load for your visitors to see so they don't leave and your ads/3rd party stuff will load later.

[BeebleBerry]

Originally Posted by htmlbasictutor

Beg to differ with those that say the Adsense ads do not slow down a site.

a) You guys evidently didn't try to surf the day Google services were down.
b) I surf a lot and when a site is slow loading a lot of the time it is the 3rd party scripts that are slowing the loading. You can tell what is holding up the load by looking in the browser status bar in the bottom right corner of the browser window (if you have it turned on).

Solution:
Put the scripts at the end of your web page coding and manipulate it's location in your content with CSS. This way the rest of the page content can continue to load for your visitors to see so they don't leave and your ads/3rd party stuff will load later.

This is exactly what I was thinking as I was reading the responses. The script doesn't slow the site down but connecting to Google servers at some times can be slow. I also think it depends on where you're located.

[htmlbasictutor]

Originally Posted by BeebleBerry

This is exactly what I was thinking as I was reading the responses. The script doesn't slow the site down but connecting to Google servers at some times can be slow. I also think it depends on where you're located.

Also, all the different 3rd party scripts you have can be fighting to connect. If the first one is slow, that will stall the others.

It would also have to do with the quality of the visitor's internet connection but with cable, it's sure is annoying having to wait. <-- Not likely, will leave.

[Sheikh Ahsan]

Originally Posted by Nuroo

I'm thinking of monetizing my site soon and probably will start with adsense. Is the adsense code a large file? Will it slow down my site's loading time?

Its not a very big code at all, It has some impact but that is so minute that can be neglected.

[leadpros]

Adsense may not slow down your site but it definitely takes people away from your site. Are you selling anything on your site except Adsense? If you are, you're committing website suicide by sending your potential customers to a competitor in hopes of making a few pennies from Adsense.

Think it through before you do it.

To your successs

Leadpros

[nick09]

The video ads sometimes slow my website...