Don’t use heavy javascript widgets
A site’s performance is based on the amount of time it needs to load on a person’s browser and am glad to say that I chucked of 5 seconds of load time by doing away with the most time consuming widgets on my site.
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.
Kyle Eslick
August 25th, 2007 at 1:35 pm #
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.
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keith Reply:
August 26th, 2007 at 8:40 am
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.
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