Fewer widgets mean faster load time
At the expense of some aspects of the social media revolution, I’ve made two more changes to the blog. These changes will speed up load time and reduce even further the possibility of JavaScript errors.
Slow social widgets
The Google FriendConnect widget has been removed completely from sidebar. It was a source of Javascript errors. The good news is not many people used it. So far just 16 people signed on. By comparison, almost 400 people use the RSS feed.
I’d rather you got the full RSS feed than worry about showing your smiling face or your avatar on the blog in a widget.
Put another way, a 30-day snapshot from Google Analytics taken this afternoon shows 7,000 visits and 9,100 page views. I’d rather make those people happy and hope the 16 folks who used the widget won’t mind.
FriendFeed is also gone as a widget, but you can find it as a passive link in the “badges” section. Like FriendConnect, it relied on JavaScript and loading data from its servers. Slow downs at FriendFeed meant slow load of the blog pages here. Unacceptable.
Click on the badge (below) to go to the FriendFeed web site if you want to get the content from the blog and the Twitter feed in the same place.
Why I’m here
My primary purpose is to communicate information and analysis about the global nuclear energy industry.
Social media widgets are fun, and help build community, but if they get in the way of the main reason this blog exists, sorry but they are gone.
I’m always interested your feedback to learn what you want as a reader from visiting this blog.
Drop me a line djysrv [at] gmail [dot] com
Thanks.
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1 comment:
As one who tires of the emoticons, I appreciate the quicker load time evident on your site today. I come here for info (and the occasional music interlude) - if I want "feel-good" I'll do MySpace.
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