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Google's +1 Button Might Slow Down Page Loads

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Google +1 Button Performance Review
by Aaron Peters
June 6, 2011

On June 1 2011, Google released the +1 Button for the whole web. Being a web performance optimization consultant and knowing the Facebook Like Button and other third party widgets, ads and trackers can have a significant impact on page load time, I immediately took a look at the Google +1 Button code, created a test page and ran some first performance test.

In this article I want to share my findings with you. In short: the Google +1 Button performance is very disappointing. The extra page load time can easily be 2 seconds.


I have found 6 performance issues for the Google +1 Button as it is now.
  1. Blocking JavaScript in the <head>
  2. Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS (aka: the typo in the code generator)
  3. Browser caching for 6 minutes, proxies disallowed
  4. Serve the JS file over HTTPS
  5. Document.write for Blogger pages
  6. JS file is not minified
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This might answer why some of my pages take a while to load because, i have both Facebook like and Google +1, thanks for the info il have to do some test runs myself!
 
It was an interesting in depth analysis of +1. I will need to varify his finding before I gave up +1
 
I have +1 on my website, and I had tried to remove it to see if there is a delay. I barely noticed any time wasting there. but I agree with some friends here that +1 don't get traffic like facebook or twitter. So I think I will not put +1 back again.
 

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