Blogging

Watch Your Widgets

Adam Tinworth

13 Feb 2007

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. 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.

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