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How do you get around the problem of one of these widgets taking forever to load and slowing down your site's render time? I noticed with the "Like" button tha
by wensing 16y ago
How do you get around the problem of one of these widgets taking forever to load and slowing down your site's render time? I noticed with the "Like" button that it was, on average, too slow to use on our home page. Am I doing it wrong?
We have a "Tweet this" link above our maps that has been getting good usage, and costs us nothing in terms of YADNSLU (yet another DNS lookup).
- smokinn 16y agoFacebook's stuff was slowing the page down? I didn't notice much of a difference on my site. Were you using the async javascript version?
- freejoe76 16y agoThe way I look at it is: An in-house same-domain solution's the slickest and fastest.... but you lose out on any network-effect recommendations. That said, facebook widgets are ridiculously expensive in terms of domain lookups and requests. But back to the topic of tweet buttons. Twitter's 3-request button beats the heck out of the Tweetmeme iframe+javascript franken-thing. I just looked on Tweetmeme's site ( http://tweetmeme.com/about/retweet_button http://tweetmeme.com/about/retweet_button ), and even they recommend using the twitter button: "We recommend using the Twitter Tweet Button. You can find more details about it on the Twitter goodies page."