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