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Agenda
• Everyone loves a
Party!
• What could go wrong?
• Why the problems?
• Solutions?
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3rd Parties for our top 30 Sites
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Lowest: 24 - Average: 37 – Highest: 87
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How do they all get on there?
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• Yottaa’s top 30 sites uses a combined 243
identified 3rd Parties
• They fall into 33 categories
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• Tag Managers – Makes it possible for Business
to Features.
• Its not the Tag Managers fault or the 3rd Parties
• Super Large Sites and SAAS don’t use them.
• Marketing, Commerce, Media are the biggest
users.
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Everyone knows the 80-20 rule
• 20% of the performance is related to the server
• 80% is on the client-side
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That’s true but 75% of that is related to 3rd Parties.
Not simply a Tag but a full System/Service.
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Inclusion Configuration Manipulation Notification
3rd Party Lifecycle
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SOASTA Performance Study
Eighty-six percent of millennial’s are annoyed by third-party
content.
One out of five blame third parties (such as ads and pop-ups) for
slowing down page loads. Nearly half (47%) say that third-
parties that interfere with page rendering will make them leave a
site.
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Source: https://www.soasta.com/blog/millennials-holiday-
shopping-web-performance/
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3rd Party Outages
Dyn’s DNS Service
Interruption
Incident Report
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GlobalSign’s SSL
Interruption
Incident Report
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Other obvious problems
• Many Users Have Access
• Little Inventorying Capabilities
• Lots of unused 3rd Parties
• Overlapping Functionality
• Inclusion of 4th, 5th… parties
• No centralized location
- Many Screens
- Many insertion points
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• Tag Managers
themselves can have
performance problems.
- Some will execute many
requests that then execute
requests to load 3rd Parties
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Other not-so obvious problems
• 3rd parties are rarely on integrated into development
• 3rd parties are sometimes used on staging sites
• Everyone has access to the tag manager UI
• Pixels over Performance
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Typical Solutions
• Use a Tag Manager
- Use it like a development tool
- Use it on staging sites
• Strip out all the 3rd Parties
• Give the 3rd Parties a budget
• Defer EVERYTHING
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How current applications interact network
Tags:
<[script|img|iframe] src=‘’>
<link href=‘’>
JavaScript:
DOMObject.src
DOMObject.href
document.write(“<tag src=‘’>”);
Ajax:
$.ajax(‘data.json’);
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Browser QoE
• Lightweight JavaScript Library
• Bridge between the Browser &Application
– DOM Injected Script
– Source Injected Script
– Image.src
– document.write
– Loading Images
– XHR
• Configurable scheduling
– Time-based deferment
– Object visibility
– User Events
– Object Loading
• Feedback and interception control via pub/sub model
ContextAgentTM
Interception
QoE
Manager
3rd Parties HTML Ajax
Application Code
Scheduler
Object
Activation
Event Listener
User API
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What’s Next?
• Centralized Configuration
• 4th Party Capture
• Prioritization
• Pixel Tag Deferment
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