Disabling auto-loading of Disqus Comments
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We use Disqus for our comments. However, one of the issues we notice from time to time is that it takes some time to load.
So we were thinking of using the Disqus Conditional Load plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-conditional-load/) so that only readers who are interested in comments can click on a "View Comments" button to load the comments.
However, I wanted to know if disabling the auto loading of comments is a good idea from an SEO point of view. On one hand, it should reduce the page load times which should help, but just want to know if there are any issues I should be aware of before using the plugin.
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Hi there.
It's known that comment section is not awesome at all in the eyes of google, typically due to spamminess, so attention paid to such sections is way lower than to other content on the page. Also, as far as I remember, Disqus is being loaded through deferred JS, into an Iframe, meaning that it would not be even considered as part of your website. Also, plugins like that are usually loaded with deferred JS, which means your loading times shouldn't be affected. Therefore, it shouldn't really matter what you do to it to do impact (if any at all) on your SEO.
Concentrate on your own content, my friend.
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