Javascript deferring causing issues

Some speed and optimisation plugins (such as WPRocket) offer a feature to defer Javascript loading.

This basically means that they stop any Javascript loading on your site until all other assets (videos, images, etc) have been download and the page has fully loaded.

This can sometimes cause issues with Attributer as it isn’t loaded on the page in time.

The solution to this issue is to instruct whatever plugin or tool you are using to defer Javascript loading to ignore the Attributer code file.

This will look a bit different depending on what plugin you use, but for instance, here’s the option in WPRocket:

To stop the tool from deferring the Attributer code from loading, you would simply need to put the URL of the file into the Exclusion list. The URL of Attributer’s Javascript file is as follows:

https://d1b3llzbo1rqxo.cloudfront.net/attributer.js