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Reddit Ads vs The Trade Desk: which slows a Shopify store more?

Reddit Ads and The Trade Desk usually land in the same band. Neither is clearly lighter on the typical store.

Both are ad tracking pixels. We measured Reddit Ads on 120 Shopify ecommerce stores and The Trade Desk on 84.

Ad tracking

Side by side

AppTypical processing timeStores measured
Reddit Ads Light (under 100 ms) 120
The Trade Desk Light (under 100 ms) 84

Reddit Ads was light on 82% of the stores it was measured on. The Trade Desk was light on 99% of the stores it was measured on.

On stores that run both

31 of the stores we checked load both. The Trade Desk took less processing time than Reddit Ads on 22 of them.

Each band is an app's typical processing time across the stores it was measured on. Those stores differ from app to app. That makes the result on stores that run both the fairer test. Apps found on fewer than 20 stores aren't listed yet. The list grows as more stores are checked.

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