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Social sharing buttons are making my site slow. How to speed things up?

by belgianguy
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I run a videosite and have added social sharing buttons on every one of the the videopages (facebook, twitter, stumble, digg, reddit, buzzz). They also display the number of shares per button.
But now my videopages are loading much slower.

Is there a way to speed things up, or make the buttons load after everything else is loaded?

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author kohashi
    Well they are pulling data from those services presumably... so you need to figure out where the problem is:
    are they loaded from your server or a user's computer?
    if your server, is your server slow or is the API slow?
    if the user, I believe elements load in order that they are in the code. If you could move them lower in your code using some sort of DIV perhaps you could make them load later.
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    • Profile picture of the author belgianguy
      I think the api is slow. I've seen lots of people complain about this, but I have not found a fix for this yet.
      Placing a div at the bottom of the page could be a solution. I'll try this.

      Thanks for the tip!
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  • Profile picture of the author alldaylinks
    Check this article has some tips on speed down load time of social networking buttons.

    Main one is to make sure you are displaying them after the content.

    How are you doing it at the moment exactly? Can you provide details of plugin/code/position/image location?
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  • Profile picture of the author stufftheme
    place a div tag at end of page worked for me
    thanks
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