Google Plus One Button Is Slow [SOLVED]
Posted by David Silva on Tue, Aug 09, 2011 @ 03:00 PM
Several weeks ago I wrote about implementing the Google Plus One button on our company website. The button promises to improve search engine rankings as well as social relevance on sites like Google+. However, what Google had not mentioned was the fact that the button would also slow down your site - a lot.
I noticed an increase in page load times myself and was immediately concerned that it might affect our search engine rankings but felt there was little I could do - you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. The button is supposed to help your web rankings but because of its speed it could hurt it.
The worst part was that most of our pages' content would not load until the button was fully loaded. Obviously this is a huge issue as users have little patience in waiting for content to load on a webpage.
Luckily Google recently improved the plus one button!
After implementing the new code on our site http://www.BlueLinkERP.com ran much faster. Our content now appears quickly (as it should) with the button taking a mere split-second to load after. Good job Google for getting that fix out quickly - somewhat embarrassing that it happened in the first place though.