Google+, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest Buttons loaded via Async Javascript, minimal presentation.
| Author: | Chris Davies (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.7 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.4-RC1 |
| Plugin version: | 0.7 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 23-11-2011 |
| Last updated: | 30-03-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | http://cd34.com/ |
| Total downloads: | 6 777 |
| Active installs: | 100+ |
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Google+, Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest Buttons loaded via Async Javascript, minimal presentation. See screenshots tab to see what the icons look like at the bottom of your posts.
Why do I want Async Javascript?
When someone loads your site, every <script src="http://someurl.com/"></script> causes loading to 'block'. If the browser doesn't have an available connection to load the css stylesheet or included javascript, it must wait until another file request completes to load the next one. On pages with dozens of css files and javascript includes, it can cause a site to appear to be slow, even if the site uses caching and comes up quickly.
By loading the javascript for the buttons asynchronously, we wait until the page is loaded, then, our script runs and modifies the page. This does make the icons appear to be the last to load, but, it does not prevent your page from being rendered and displayed - shaving a few hundred milliseconds from the pageload time. If any of the remote javascripts load slowly, your site is not stalled until they load.