Social buttons performance

Question

I have performance issues with my gallery once i added social buttons.

The gallery currently has around 30 thumbnails, for each there are four social buttons for various service (fb,g+,twitter,pinterest).

But my pageload jumped up to thirty or more seconds rendering the page useless.

My question is : Can i somehow adjust the plugins so they load faster ? Should i maybe change my approach and display these "on demand" ? Or maybe should i divide the gallery into more pages so there is not so many of these at the same time ?

Any CMS are you use (wordpress, Joomla, Drupal) or static PHP ? — Jaykumar Patel, Mar 05 '14 at 06:33
Are the images for these social buttons from the social networks CDN or are the images on your server? — Cjmarkham, Mar 05 '14 at 06:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '14 at 06:41

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Since the images are hosted on the social networks servers you are making a request to their server each time to get the image. 4 images per thumbnail would be 120 requests which can add alot to the response time of your page.

I would suggest you host the images on your own server (maybe as a spritesheet) to reduce the amount of requests.

answered Mar 05 '14 at 06:41

Cjmarkham

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I did thought of this , but i thought once the image is downloaded for the first button, it is afterwards loaded from browsers cache. Is this not true ? – Slytherin Mar 05 '14 at 06:43
Although the images are from cache it still has to request the image from another server which happens each time for a button. Using your own server means only one request. – Cjmarkham Mar 05 '14 at 06:47
That is inconvenient. Accepting your answer. – Slytherin Mar 05 '14 at 06:52

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