Since the last update and the changes made to the Social Counter the sharing buttons load much slower than the rest of the page now. Is this normal with new version of tagDiv Social Counter? Before the sharing buttons and icons loaded about the same speed as the rest of the pages.
See this page for reference: https://www.enkelteknik.se/sa-ser-du-vilket-imei-nummer-din-telefon-har
You can check a demo post to see how the social icons are loaded there, the theme is also the latest version
– https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/wordpress-news-magazine-charts-the-most-fashionable-new-york-couples-in-2016/
There were no changes made to the socials since their implementation. So the functionality would be the same as before.
My bad. I thought it was the social counter plugin that was used for the normal sharing buttons (Theme Panel > Post Settings > Sharing). However I see now that it wasn´t. So it´s the top and bottom sharing buttons I´m talking about.
They seem to load instantly on the demo. They have been loading instantly on my site too, however with the last update it takes a couple seconds for them to load. To they recieve data (like the actual icons) from somewhere else or are they locally stored with the theme? Thinking if this could be the case for the slow, and somewhat annoying, loading.
The live demo is optimized and the posts are loading fast, that is why there is no noticeable delay for the social icons. The social icons will be loaded after all the content is loaded, so that would be why the delay is noticeable. But after all this should not be a such a big problem, the users will still be able to share the post after reading it.
“But after all this should not be a such a big problem, the users will still be able to share the post after reading it.”
I dont agree. When a user starts reading the buttons load in and distract from reading. The social buttons as they were before the template update were better IMO. Is there a way to revert it back?
Well at least I´m not the only one thinking something happened with the speed the buttons load after the template update. Good to know I´m not crazy 😛
Reverting back is not possible, unless you revert to an older version of the theme. The new implementation if the theme affects many theme files, that would be the only way. You could maybe enable only the bottom sharing. Or try to further optimize the website loading speed.
Same here, the new social sharing buttons are loading extremely slow. I would even go further and say in 15%-25% they do not load at all, just a blank field (talking about mobile, desktop works better).
