So, in case anyone else comes across this post, there is absolutely no difference in terms of performance between the Hubspot plugin ( Contact Form Builder for WordPress – Conversion Tools by HubSpot ) and the manually inserting code. It produces the same results.
Hubspot Plugin Enabled
Hubspot Code Manually Inserted
And without either of those options (no Hubspot tracking code at all):
Without Hubspot Code
The trouble is that all the resources for Hubspot to work come from multiple domains with each requiring a DNS lookup for the page to render:
- js.hs-analytics.net: 1 component, 73.5K (24.6K GZip)
- js.hsleadflows.net: 1 component, 364.3K (58.2K GZip)
- js.hs-scripts.com: 1 component, 1.0K (0.5K GZip)
- track.hubspot.com: 1 component, 0.04K
- forms.hubspot.com: 1 component, 3.3K (1.2K GZip)
This is really outrageous. Some of us work very hard to create fully optimized websites. Then we want to use Hubspot and we’re punished for it. All our hard work goes out the window. Please fix this.
On behalf of everyone who cares about quality coding, please send this up the chain to your CTO and figure out a way to host all your assets on fewer than 5 different domains/subdomains.