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What’s Making Your Site Go Slow? Could Be The Like Button
- daveambrose 16y agoHas anyone else noticed this on sites that they routinely visit, as the page load is slower and sometimes comes to a crawl with the Open Graph protocol installed?
- Pewpewarrows 16y agoAnd this, ladies and gents, is why you should always insert third-party scripts, widgets, and frames either asynchronously or dynamically after-the-fact if you can help it. Between all the analytics and social third-party code people love to throw on every damn page these days, the average page load time is a mess. For a prime example of how to utterly fail at making your page load time and CPU usage small from social bloat just visit any Mashable article.
- AndrewDucker 16y agoI frequently have a page sitting there, blank, with "waiting for analytics.google.com"* - and I assume if they weren't using it then the page would have displayed by then. Which baffles me - you'd think there'd be a way to have it finish loading the analystics after the page was available for reading. *Or whatever the domain is.