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Defer the loading of 3rd party addons

I just discovered the informative blog-post “Optimize the Performance of Widgets, Buttons & More” on w3-edge.com.

It’s a well known problem that 3rd-party services included in a web page can become a performance bottleneck.

The article explains how to defer the loading of 3rd-party widgets (like google ads, social network plugins etc.) until after the HTML is rendered. It gives a lot of code examples for the most popular addons (also for some that I didn’t hear of). These should enable you to add the JS functionality after the page has been loaded for these elements.

Performance First Aid: Basics

If your web application suffers from severe slowdowns, these 5 steps will help you to understand the areas of improvement that can have a drastically effect. This is especially true with older applications that didn’t get “web performance” built in by design.
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