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Facebook and Instagram ad landing page speed for car dealers

When a shopper taps a Facebook or Instagram ad, the page usually opens inside the app's own browser, not their normal one, so nothing from earlier visits is saved and the page loads from scratch on a phone. That makes landing page speed matter more for social ads than for almost any other traffic. Test by tapping the real ad.

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The in-app browser

The app's browser has none of the shopper's saved files for your site, and the shopper is used to a fast feed. A vehicle page that takes a while to show a car competes with the back button.

Three steps: the ad in the feed, the app's own built-in browser, and the dealership landing page, loaded from scratch.
A social click opens a browser the dealership can't configure.

How to check your social landing pages

  1. 1

    Tap the real ad

    On a phone, from the feed, not by pasting the link into a browser.

  2. 2

    Test the destination

    Run the exact landing address in the free speed test.

  3. 3

    Match the promise

    The vehicle or offer in the ad should be the first thing on the page.

Make every ad land faster

Site Speed Engine loads the vehicle, price and lead form first on every page, including the ones your social campaigns use, with nothing for your agency to change. For search ads, see landing page speed for dealer ads.

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Questions

Does landing page speed affect Facebook ads?

Landing page speed affects what happens after the click: a shopper who leaves before the page loads was paid for and never saw the offer.

What is the Facebook in-app browser?

The browser built into the Facebook and Instagram apps. Links from ads open there, without the shopper's saved data from their normal browser.

How do I test a Facebook ad landing page?

Tap the live ad on a phone, then run the same address through a speed test on mobile.