Hi @gilles24
This is not at all the case with your Stripe payment plugin…
Comparing two different solutions and their page load speeds doesn’t provide an accurate measurement. PayPal and Stripe have different architectures so how they are implemented on a cart solution is not comparable.
That being said, in our performance testing the PayPal plugin loads fast. Whenever there is a slow down, it’s because of the www.paypal.com/sdk/js script. That script is required by PayPal or else the plugin wouldn’t work.
There is more to the story than saying “So it’s not a conflict but a problem with your plugin.” Page load speeds for externally hosted scripts can largely be affected by how they are distributing those scripts through CDN’s and their cache rates.
Notice in your video that when the PayPal plugin is enabled, your page UX is still rendered at roughly the same rate. The PayPal script doesn’t interfere with the loading of the page elements since it’s async. So your customer isn’t sitting there waiting to interact with the checkout page while external scripts load.
To get an accurate idea of page load speeds and to see where improvements can be made I recommend using a site speed test service. That will have a breakdown of all scripts and their load times.
Kind Regards
