I can’t stand it

Many of the most downloaded social sharing plugins take ages to load. I can’t stand watching my site hang just to load the share buttons. It forces me to make a tough decision: should I slow down my site or make my content easier to share?

Simple Share Buttons Light set a lofty goal to be the fastest sharing plugin, and absolutely nails it. All of the images are base64 encoded, so there are no image file requests. The little bit of CSS needed is added into the page, rather than loaded in a separate file. And there are no Javascript files loaded whatsoever. The end result? A sharing plugin that has virtually no effect on your site’s load time.

This is a perfect choice for webmasters who want to incentivize social sharing on their site, but don’t want the slow load times.