> Ofc your mileage may vary, i don't block disqus but use uBlock and the page is most likely hosted on another continent which makes latency another issue.
The page is indeed slower if I route it through a German VPN, but all content including the widget still stops visibly changing in under 5s on a hard reload, 1.5s on a soft reload: everything past that is various tracking nonsense which presumably has no impact on functionality.
My bigger point is, no one but a bot is going to be using the Disqus widget to check the comments within 5 seconds of visiting a page on a blog they've never seen before. All substantial content above it stops moving within a second, from Germany or from the U.S. (Unless your RTT is especially bad where you live?)
I just don't see what your prescription would be here, except to tear out the widget entirely, just for the sake of improving a metric with no direct importance. Unless you advise that the author implement his own commenting system, which is a huge can of worms filled with spam, legally-sensitive user data, and so on. I certainly wouldn't take it as an indictment on his choice of frontend or backend.
The page is indeed slower if I route it through a German VPN, but all content including the widget still stops visibly changing in under 5s on a hard reload, 1.5s on a soft reload: everything past that is various tracking nonsense which presumably has no impact on functionality.
My bigger point is, no one but a bot is going to be using the Disqus widget to check the comments within 5 seconds of visiting a page on a blog they've never seen before. All substantial content above it stops moving within a second, from Germany or from the U.S. (Unless your RTT is especially bad where you live?)
I just don't see what your prescription would be here, except to tear out the widget entirely, just for the sake of improving a metric with no direct importance. Unless you advise that the author implement his own commenting system, which is a huge can of worms filled with spam, legally-sensitive user data, and so on. I certainly wouldn't take it as an indictment on his choice of frontend or backend.