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Hi there @boionfire81, thanks for getting in touch. What you’re encountering is additional network requests based on adding services, which may also include other services such as Google Analytics and AdSense to your site. When doing so, it’s normal that there may be a trade off in performance, as there will be trips made between your site and the Google service networks. This is the same whether you use Site Kit or not to add these services.

We have performed tests around this in the past comparing both Site Kit placed code and placing the code manually finding that the difference between the two is very minimal and in most cases not noticeable.

We also added a?guide on the plugin website?that explains the above in more detail. If you’d be willing to share some more information such as your ?Site Health information, I’d be happy to check things on your side to see if there’s anything that stands out that could cause this. You can?use this form?to share privately if preferred.? Let me know have any further questions.

Your right I did drop 11 points from not using Google analytics in any manner. But that is still a gain of 11 points from the plugin version with a 22 point drop. The website losses 22 points with your plugin and only 11 points with just manual installation.

Here’s my question, mostly curiosity. Google requires a score of 90 to be considered “good” and not just “acceptable”. So for a webmaster to get the search information about their website that Google obtains they would have to decided not to be “good” in Google’s eye. Just by using analytics? Seems like Google is frowning on it’s own service.

Have you guys thought about optimizing to atleast allow 1 or 2 points, or heck even perfection to still be called “good” and not just merely acceptable?

It just blows my mind that a webmaster could have a perfect website with a score of 100, but simply using your analytics to get the same information from Google that Google has gathered about them already they are considered merely “acceptable”. A perfect website (first we know that doesn’t exists) would be a score of 100, remove the 11 points from Google analytics and your no longer good, just “acceptable”. Mind blowing.

@boionfire81 These scores will vary from site to site and depend on a variety of things. While we can only provide support for the Site Kit plugin here, I can tell you that the Site Kit plugin acts as a “facilitator” between WordPress sites and the Google services that you choose to connect with your site. The only code that the Site Kit plugin itself adds to the front-end of your site is a meta tag.

This shouldn’t have much of a difference from if you placed this code manually yourself. We don’t have control over the scores given but as mentioned above have performed tests ourselves which show little difference between a site with Site Kit placed code and a site with Manually placed code.

If there is anything on the Site Kit side of things that I can help you with then please let me know and I will be happy to help.