I just reviewed the performance of a customer’s WordPress site. Things got a lot worse he wrote and he assumed Autoptimize (he was a AOPro user) wasn’t working any more and asked me to guide him to fix the issue.
Instead it turns out he installed CookieYes, which adds tons of JS (part of which is render-blocking), taking 3.5s of main thread work and (fasten your seat-belts) which somehow seems to increase DOM size to over 60K elements in this case.
I knew cookie consent solutions can have a performance impact, but this? Thanks but no thanks!
So what should we use to be compliant, but not affect our site speed?
Much appreciated, Futta,
CookieYes, just say no.
I installed CookieYes to keep my site running for Google. Installation was painful. Support was bad. Performance greatly impacted.
Do you know of any good lightweight, compliant, alternatives?
Hey Brynn. You can check WP Full Picture (disclaimer – I am its author). It’s free and you can find it in the WP repo. It does not impact page load speed.