Delay loading of RECAPTCHA JS

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RECAPTCHA in GF is creating a big lag in load time and causing core web vitals to fail. This MUST be dealt with as it is quite significant. Does anyone or does GF support have any fix for this?

Another post on this was unanswered and it needs to be. Delay loading of recaptcha

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As above. With no forms in the page and ‘without’ Gravity Forms reCAPTCHA Add-On enabled Pagespeed for mobile > Performance is 96 :slight_smile:

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 2.7 s
  • Total Blocking Time: 20 ms
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
  • Speed Index: 1.2 s

With no forms in the page and ‘with’ Gravity Forms reCAPTCHA Add-On enabled Pagespeed for mobile > Performance drops to 73!! :confused:

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.5 s ←
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 2.7 s ←
  • Total Blocking Time: 770 ms ←
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001. ←
  • Speed Index: 3.3 s ←

Reduce unused JavaScript → Google CDN

(gstatic) 187.0 KiB 105.3 KiB
*/recaptcha__en.js)

(gstatic) 187.0 KiB 101.3 KiB

It’s a real shame, GF is a superior plugin for form administration compared to the alternatives. We will be forced to use an alternative solution such as Cloudflare Turnstile.

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