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# Watch Your Widgets
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2007/02/watch_your_widg/
- Published: 2007-02-13T15:31:59.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T11:51:24.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogging, Blogs, widgets

[Bloggers Blog: Widgets, Third Party Tools Can Weigh Down Blogs](http://www.bloggersblog.com/cgi-bin/bloggersblog.pl?bblog=212073&ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Bloggers Blog: Widgets, Third Party Tools Can Weigh Down Blogs")

> Too much widget bling can slow down your blog and/or make your blog look hideous

Beth said [something similar recently](http://bethlet.net/catacombs/2007/01/on%5Fwidgets.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). I’ve just removed the Twitter widget from this blog because it was slowing things down horribly. Widgets are a great idea, but they need to perform much, much better.