A ChatGPT-based website chatbot can dramatically reduce your website's performance. A decent chatbot needs to download reCAPTCHA. This is a heavy library, blocking rendering during downloads, significantly impacting the performance of your website. A slow website scores badly on SEO, something we published an article about last week. You should, therefore, carefully measure the performance of your website both before and after including a chatbot on your website, or you might be up for a surprise as you see organic clicks from Google drop like a stone in water because you wanted "a cool ChatGPT-based website chatbot on your site."
We just made some huge performance gains on our own chatbot technology. The way we did it was by deferring the loading of reCAPTCHA libraries until the chatbot is activated. Let's face it, your chatbot is amazing, but most people come to your site to see (duh!) your site and not your chatbot. Hence, loading reCAPTCHA before it's needed is a waste. reCAPTCHA is also an extremely poorly written JavaScript library, blocking DOM rendering for 3 to 4 seconds on phones. Yes, I know, the irony...