Don’t use heavy javascript widgets
Written on Saturday, 25th August 2007 . Permalink Jump to Comments
Tags: Quick Tips
Welcome! to Techie Buzz, it seems that you are new to this site. If you want to get regular updates you can signup to get email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed.
Do check out our About page to know more about our blog. We also apprecaite your views and comments on this blogs. Thanks for visiting!!.
The two which I removed was Mybloglog and Technorati latest blog reactions, after I removed this my site loaded 5 seconds more faster than earlier.
Why does this happen?
Both Mybloglog and Technorati are used by a heavy number of users and their servers are unable to sustain such heavy loads and respond slowly to them. After they are not Google or Microsoft to have a array of servers to adhere to user requests.
In those circumstances I am doing away with those widgets and also with a few other tracking systems which though I rarely use but make my site load slower, I would rather go with a single traffic tracking program and chuck off the rest.
The rest assured I will make the site load under 10 seconds with the optimizations.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Get the latest updates from Techie Buzz directly in your inbox. Subscribe now.
Great explanation!
I’ve actually found the two biggest culprits on my site are the Feedburner Flare and the Alexa widget (both of which I noticed you still use).
I removed the flare on my site and am considering moving the Alexa widget down to the footer somewhere to keep load times up.
I think with every site, trial and error are the best way to get an optimal load time.
Kyle the javascript for mybloglog and technorati both loaded while the page loaded thus making the site slower. The feedflare does not have much problems as it loads only after the body has loaded.
Other than that it does not matter if you move the widgets to the footer since it’s inside the body and will always use the load time.