Lynne
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I have heard that having too many plugins can be bad for your website SEO and that it can slow down your website.
Can anyone explain to me why having too many plugins can be bad for SEO? Is it because it slows your website down or are there other reasons that come into it?
And even though I've been told that "too many" plguins can be bad for SEO nobody has been able to tell me how many is fine and how many is too much. I don't just add plugins all over the place but I do have a good few on my websites.
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This is little complicated to explain but i will try to be as simple as i can. For example many plugins in it's codes using some "third party" website's for additional purposes like javascripts etc... So if they not include javascript in the code, but perhaps requesting javascript hosted on third party website, it's mostly OK, as most of these websites are very fast in providing it, BUT if you have few different plugins requesting same javascript to display some files or features of your website, then it's slowing down your website, just because of multiple calls to third party files, and speed is measured in milliseconds, so if your page is loading for 1 single second it's far too slow for Google crawlers and can be downside for SERP.
That's main problem why it's hard to tell how many plugins to use. In some cases 3 could be too much, while in other case 10 would be nothing to worry about. So only solution is to test them by switching on and off and test your website, plus when you getting new plugin for your WordPress, always read other member's reviews to get better plugins! I am working with WordPress for long time as user but also as developer of themes and plugins. To be honest nobody can tell how many plugins is too many, because it depends on which plugins are you using. This is little complicated to explain but i will try to be as simple as i can. For example many plugins in it's codes using some "third party" website's for additional purposes like javascripts etc... So if they not include javascript in the code, but perhaps requesting javascript hosted on third party website, it's mostly OK, as most of these websites are very fast in providing it, BUT if you have few different plugins requesting same javascript to display some files or features of your website, then it's slowing down your website, just because of multiple calls to third party files, and speed is measured in milliseconds, so if your page is loading for 1 single second it's far too slow for Google crawlers and can be downside for SERP. That's main problem why it's hard to tell how many plugins to use. In some cases 3 could be too much, while in other case 10 would be nothing to worry about. So only solution is to test them by switching on and off and test your website, plus when you getting new plugin for your WordPress, always read other member's reviews to get better plugins!
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