product page size increases by 50% with version 5.5.0

  • Resolved steveokk

    (@steveokk)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi

    With version 5.5.0 I can see some filters have been deprecated in favor of using the admin backend:

    ‘wc_stripe_hide_payment_request_on_product_page’

    the problem is before none of the code was being loaded on product pages but now even when the product page isn’t selected to show payment request buttons the css + js files are still being loaded adding pretty much 0.5mb to each page load!

    this is a crazy drop in performance for all sites now using woocommerce & stripe… I’m shocked this kind of change was allowed to be pushed, can you guys not hire a speed expert to prevent this sort of thing happening in the future?

    also in version 5.6.0 it looks like the branded google + apple buttons were removed, again this is a negative for conversions, can you not higher a conversion person to stop these bad changes too?

    i’m generally ranting a bit here i know but i love using woocommerce and its just sad to see lack of speed + conversion optimization going into future updates, really shocked its gone backwards ??

    if you want to discuss further i’d be happy to give you guys more feedback

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  • Plugin Support Chris M. – a11n

    (@csmcneill)

    Hi there @steveokk,

    Thank you for your feedback regarding the deprecation of ‘wc_stripe_hide_payment_request_on_product_page and the branded Google Pay and Apple Pay buttons.

    We’ve released a few versions of WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway since 5.6.0; I would recommend updating to 5.7.0 to see if there is any improvement in your site’s pageloads.

    Looking forward to hearing from you!

    Thread Starter steveokk

    (@steveokk)

    I mean looking at the changelog this change was made in version 5.5.0, im currently testing Version 5.7.0 and the same issue is there with the page size due to loading of stripe css/js files

    hope that makes more sense

    Steve

    • This reply was modified 3 years ago by steveokk.
    Plugin Support Chris M. – a11n

    (@csmcneill)

    Hi again @steveokk,

    I mean looking at the changelog this change was made in version 5.5.0, im currently testing Version 5.7.0 and the same issue is there with the page size due to loading of stripe css/js files

    My apologies—I thought you had indicated that you were experiencing these issues with 5.6.0.

    It sounds like these CSS and JavaScript files are continuing to load despite the relevant components being disabled from the back-end UI. This sounds like something that our developers would like to correct, especially as it has a negative impact on site performance.

    I would recommend that you document these findings as an issue in our public GitHub repository for the WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway. That repo can be found at the following link:

    https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe

    You can select Issues, then create a New Issue and follow the instructions.

    With that said, one of the developers for the extension has said the following about the wc_stripe_hide_payment_request_on_product_page filter:

    I just want to make one thing clear; we do not plan to remove the filters any time soon, even though they are deprecated.

    […]

    The filters are intended as a way for merchants to choose general locations to display the PRBs, instead of selectively displaying them depending on other factors; that’s why we deprecated them in favor of the admin UI settings.

    Additionally, it appears as though Google Pay and Apple Pay in Stripe do feature branded buttons:

    Is this what you were referring to? Or is there a different branding that is missing with the more recent updates to this extension?

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