http://forums.sharethis.com/ ShareThis Forums Tag: loading en Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:02:29 +0000 http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-slowing-down-other-javascript#post-1105 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:39:25 +0000 denilama 1105@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I also have the same problem as Amplicon. The IE browser freezes about 2-5 seconds after the page is loaded. Any idea?</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Denis </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-slowing-down-other-javascript#post-1066 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:21:37 +0000 Manu 1066@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Amplicon,</p> <p>I am guessing that you are seeing a slowdown because you are in a different geographical location (UK -&gt; Seattle). We plan on implementing a global CDN solution soon, so you should see an improvement when that happens, but till then I was wondering if you can send me a url where I can look at your implementation I am sure that I can suggest a solution that solves the issue you are seeing)</p> <p>thanks,<br /> Manu </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-slowing-down-other-javascript#post-1059 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:39:49 +0000 Amplicon 1059@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>We have just found the same problem.</p> <p>Everything was fine until we got the news of the new and 'faster' loading code. But on our IE browsers (both 6 &#38; 7) it seems to create a 2-5 sec delay which makes the page freeze and clicking on links does not work until the share this code has loaded. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-1052 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:23:17 +0000 Manu 1052@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Guys,</p> <p>bind:false; is no longer supported, in the new code button:false does the same thing.<br /> Basically button:false would hide the button but the span for it was still being created. The bind:false would not create the span tag.</p> <p>Now button:false does not create the span tag either and we have deprecated bind:false </p> <p>Please accept my apologies if it broke some pages</p> <p>thanks,<br /> Manu<br /> manu (at) sharethis dot com </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-1049 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:10:43 +0000 schubert 1049@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>If you set buttons:false that seems to make it work again. Also the 2.x version of the code has no more bind variable it seems. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-966 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:53:11 +0000 aaroncampbell 966@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>It would be great to have a quality solution for this. The two WordPress sites that I have running this would barely load last night because of the sharethis script. It makes the sites look bad. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-slowing-down-other-javascript#post-957 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:24:07 +0000 jcotton 957@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi there</p> <p>Thanks for replying. </p> <p>To answer your question: an example of the problem showing its face is the 'videos' page - the comments box on the right briefly becomes visible when first loading the page. With Sharethis removed this doesn't happen.</p> <p>I think the additional javascript is just slowing down the loading of each page enough that a flaw with hiding DIVs (either an inate one or one in the way we've structured our code) is showing itself.</p> <p>Does that make sense?</p> <p>Cheers - Jon </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-956 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:49:29 +0000 hassanhodges 956@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I started using this technique a couple months ago and it worked like a charm, until sometime overnight last night when it started blowing up the page.</p> <p>&lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"&gt;<br /> function deferIt(){<br /> var obj = SHARETHIS.addEntry({<br /> }, {button:true,bind:false});<br /> var el = document.getElementById("sharemail");<br /> obj.attachButton(el);<br /> }</p> <p>window.onload = function() {<br /> deferIt();<br /> }<br /> &lt;/script&gt;</p> <p>When I remove the deferit function it works fine.</p> <p>I also see the same problem on the sample page <a href="http://jayridge.googlepages.com/defer-sharethis.html" rel="nofollow">http://jayridge.googlepages.com/defer-sharethis.html</a></p> <p>any ideas? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-slowing-down-other-javascript#post-948 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:45:34 +0000 Manu 948@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Jon,</p> <p>I looked around the site and could not find anything that I think would make the ShareThis button slow down the site. Is there a reason you believe that the ShareThis button is the cause of the problem?</p> <p>thanks for using ShareThis,<br /> Manu </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/sharethis-slowing-down-other-javascript#post-943 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:52:58 +0000 jcotton 943@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi there</p> <p>We're using quite a lot of different CSS's on a site we're building, c/w the usual javascript to hide/show certain divs. </p> <p>Working version of the site is here... <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5f4q3m" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/5f4q3m</a></p> <p>Adding the sharethis icon is slowing page-loading down sufficiently that divs which should be hidden on load are briefly visible (e.g. if you click on the 'videos' link you will see the comments div which is usually hidden by default load briefly).</p> <p>Can anyone suggest a way round this? I'm thinking it may be a fundemental issue with the way our javascript is structured - it's not our forte.</p> <p>Gratefully,</p> <p>Jon </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-429 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:27:59 +0000 ishmael 429@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Same problem with me (<a href="http://www.thepequod.org.uk">The Pequod</a>) - around a 10 second load on a 1mb/second broadband connection. Is there not some way to ensure that Sharethis loads after other elements on the page (e.g. the main text)? </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-373 Fri, 16 May 2008 10:50:49 +0000 mgrave 373@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Thank you Jay. Your example is very clear and works well most of the time, but for some reason, once in a while, the "ShareThis" button still appear at the page bottom, even with your above URL. See screen capture at:<br /> <a href="http://www.shortreckonings.com/tmp/deferred-sharethis.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.shortreckonings.com/tmp/deferred-sharethis.png</a></p> <p>It looks like a cache issue: You may be serving the sharethis JS code from a load balancing system or via a proxy and is it possible that the old version still exists somewhere?</p> <p>The problem appears randomly. Of course I have done shift+ctrl+reloads, have closed my browser. This was observed over a period of 1 week. I would say it works fine 90% of the time.</p> <p>To exclude a browser issue on my end, I did a test from both FF and IE, as well as from other computers that did never load the above URL before, and was still able to observe the problem (randomly).</p> <p>Please advise. I don't feed confident to use <code>button=false</code> in production at this point.</p> <p>Also: What does the <code>bind:false</code> parameter does in <code>addEntry()</code>?</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-372 Fri, 16 May 2008 07:18:12 +0000 tripsailor 372@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi guys,</p> <p>Since a few days we experience the same problems with ShareThis. Sometimes our site stalls when loading the ShareThis javascript for 7-8secs. ( <a href="http://www.tripsailor.com" title="Sailing Blogs">www.tripsailor.com</a> ). Is there some kind of timeout we can set to stop loading Sharethis after some time? Since this does only happen sometimes it would perfectly work to set the timeout to approx. 1sec. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-349 Tue, 06 May 2008 16:03:58 +0000 jayridge 349@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi Mikael. The button=false param was not being passed correctly from the query string to the script. This bug has been corrected in the latest release.</p> <p>Here is a boring but functional example:<br /> <a href="http://jayridge.googlepages.com/defer-sharethis.html" rel="nofollow">http://jayridge.googlepages.com/defer-sharethis.html</a></p> <p>cheers,<br /> Jay </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/deferred-javascript-loading#post-342 Fri, 02 May 2008 18:37:17 +0000 mgrave 342@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Our Web site programming guidelines do not allow to load Javascript libraries in the <code>&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;</code> section. Our guidelines, for page loading optimization and user comfort purposes, ask to load them immediately before the closing <code>&lt;/body&gt;</code> tag. Then we use an "onload" handler to run any Javascript code that must be done once the page is loaded.</p> <p>I have tried this with the ShareThis API but for some reason, when the ShareThis widget javascript code is placed outside <code>&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;</code>, a button is always rendered, even without creating a Shared Object. The widget code seems smart and detect whether it in <code>&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;</code> and does not render any button in this case...</p> <p>Is there a parameter I can pass in the widget javascript code so that no button is rendered, even if the code is outside <code>&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;</code>?</p> <p>Example of what I'd like to do:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt; &lt;script&gt; function onload() { var obj = SHARETHIS.addEntry( ... ); var el = document.getElementById( &quot;mydiv&quot; ); obj.addButton( el ); } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;body onload=&quot;onload&quot;&gt; ... &lt;div id=&quot;mydiv&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;javascript:void(0)&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; ... &lt;script src=&quot;http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail(...snip...)&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt;</code></pre> <p>As is, it does not work: a button is rendered at the end of my body.</p> <p>Thanks for you help. ShareThis is a fantastic widget!</p> <p>--Mikael </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-322 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:28:42 +0000 streetforce1 322@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I'm also having this problem with my site. It is seriously slowing down the performance of my site and I will have to uninstall it until you guys fix it for good. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-321 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:43:58 +0000 lelandf 321@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I just disabled ShareThis on my blog as well. This issue definitely not resolved, and I doubt I'll be using ShareThis again anytime soon.</p> <p>I've had to add ShareThis to AdBlock just so I wouldn't have to wait for it to load on all the sites it's on. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-320 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:27:29 +0000 Kouga 320@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>We are still down. This has taken up a whole day at our company. Sorry, but you just got unplugged for good ShareThis. Routing is still broken:</p> <p>traceroute: Warning: w.sharethis.com has multiple addresses; using 72.44.48.173<br /> traceroute to w.sharethis.com (72.44.48.173), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets<br /> 1 64.34.172.3 (64.34.172.3) 0.548 ms 0.241 ms 0.198 ms<br /> 2 216.187.116.241 (216.187.116.241) 0.654 ms 0.560 ms *<br /> 3 cpr2-pos-12-0.virginiaequinix.savvis.net (208.173.10.193) 5.153 ms 0.718 ms 0.856 ms<br /> 4 P4-2-1-0.r01.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net (208.173.50.250) 0.866 ms 0.856 ms *<br /> 5 po-3.r04.asbnva01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.169) 1.077 ms 0.928 ms 0.800 ms<br /> 6 xe-2-4.r04.asbnva01.us.ce.gin.ntt.net (168.143.105.30) 2.032 ms 1.934 ms 2.107 ms<br /> 7 * othr-216-182-232-93.usma2.compute.amazonaws.com (216.182.232.93) 2.085 ms 2.247 ms<br /> 8 othr-216-182-232-89.usma2.compute.amazonaws.com (216.182.232.89) 47.627 ms 192.349 ms 199.340 ms<br /> 9 othr-216-182-224-18.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com (216.182.224.18) 3.622 ms 4.187 ms *<br /> 10 * * *<br /> 11 * * *<br /> 12 * * *<br /> 13 * * *<br /> 14 * * *<br /> 15 * * *<br /> 16 * * *<br /> 17 * * *<br /> 18 * * *<br /> 19 * * *<br /> 20 * * * </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-319 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:13:19 +0000 netnebraska 319@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Update... our site has been functioning perfectly for the last few minutes. So I hope you have fixed the problem for good. Your service in general and excellent support is very much appreciated. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-318 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:54:53 +0000 netnebraska 318@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>The issue is not resolved... here is a tracert I ran 5 minutes ago:</p> <p>Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]<br /> Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</p> <p>Tracing route to sharethis.com [209.216.230.216]<br /> over a maximum of 30 hops:</p> <p> 1 &lt;1 ms &lt;1 ms &lt;1 ms 192.168.0.1<br /> 2 7 ms 13 ms 5 ms 76.47.112.1<br /> 3 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms GIG2-1.lnclne03-rtr2.neb.rr.com [24.169.240.29]</p> <p> 4 6 ms 11 ms 7 ms SRP7-0.lnclne00-rtr1.neb.rr.com [24.169.240.161]</p> <p> 5 23 ms 31 ms 27 ms so5-0-3.cgchill3-rtr1.kc.rr.com [24.94.160.70]<br /> 6 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms ae-5-0.cr0.chi30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.112]<br /> 7 29 ms 24 ms 25 ms ae-1-0.pr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.155]<br /> 8 25 ms 23 ms 23 ms 66.109.9.202<br /> 9 91 ms 96 ms 89 ms 64.209.110.2<br /> 10 238 ms 126 ms 94 ms sdtc.ar01.g8-3.americanis.net [206.251.233.61]<br /> 11 264 ms 352 ms 118 ms em0.bfw01.m5hosting.com [206.251.227.243]<br /> 12 533 ms 200 ms 95 ms sharethis.com [209.216.230.216]</p> <p>Trace complete. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-317 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:07:01 +0000 ShareThisSupport 317@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Due to a large increase in traffic, two of our server nodes have reached maximum capacity. As a result of this, some of our publishers may have experienced substantially slower load times, but we’ve reacted as quickly as possible to get this resolved. We’ve dramatically increased the number of nodes added to our service.</p> <p><strong>This issue has now been resolved.</strong></p> <p>Please email us at <a href="mailto:feedback@sharethis.com">feedback@sharethis.com</a> if you're still experiencing issues. </p> <p>We sincerely apologize for any inconveniences anyone may have experienced. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-316 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:05:24 +0000 Kouga 316@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Make your members happy and NEVER use ShareThis. We have removed Share This from our network of 14 sites. FWIW, this is the end of us using ShareThis as they have totally pissed off our readers. We've gone back to our own simple include of links.</p> <p>How about a status report ShareThis? Seriously, you are dropping the ball here BIG TIME! </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-314 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:48:24 +0000 ChazzLayne 314@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Yep, I'm having the same problem. That's actually what brought me back here in the first place, to see if it was being fixed, and if not grab a copy of the Classic plug-in so I can cut my site's dependence on ShareThis servers...</p> <p>In RE: to Support, yeah it's intermittent. I've noticed much the same level of intermittent reliability out of the ShareThis site as well. Here's a good test (that I HAVE performed): ShareThis the old version = my site loads quick as a bunny, ShareThis the current dependent version = my site loads like crap 40% of the time with the stall waiting on w.sharethis.com. I hate to break it to you, but you need either more bandwidth, a bigger server(s), or a better host to handle the overwhelming popularity of your product. ;) </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-312 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:57:55 +0000 netnebraska 312@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I can also verify the ShareThis widget is causing our websites to intermittently stall. I just started noticing it this morning. Before today, everything was fine. Obviously there exists a latency problem somewhere... either with the ShareThis server itself... or a gateway in between our server and the ShareThis server. </p> <p>Can someone from your support team let us know if your servers are experiencing any problems.. and if so, when they might be remedied. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-310 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:40:49 +0000 mountainfit 310@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hi guys,</p> <p>My website is <a href="http://www.mountainfit.co.uk" rel="nofollow">www.mountainfit.co.uk</a></p> <p>I am also getting the exact problem as mentioned above. If I have activated the Share this plugin then the page load stalls for quite some time while "Connecting to w.sharethis.com"</p> <p>When I go into admin and deactivate the plugin the site loads super quick.</p> <p>What I cannot understand is on my Macbook using Firefox this issue is not evident. I use my laptop to design my site, use ftp, store all my web files etc. However using Firefox on my partners PowerPC G4 the problem is apparent. Also my brother using a PC and Firefox same problem. When he used Linux's Conqueror browser it loaded quickly.</p> <p>Any ideas? I dig the Share this plugin and really want to use it on my site as I build it however it takes a monumental time to load. </p> <p>Please help if possible. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-264 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:18:12 +0000 abidan 264@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I get the same exact issue. It is intermitant!! Bt when my site hangs including goign to the administration panel in wordppress i see that the site is waiting to load share thins in the toolbar botttom left. If i disable sahre this the problem goes!!! </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-228 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:11:05 +0000 germz 228@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>I use fasterfox and it takes the same amount for the page to load for me.<br /> The thing I see is on the "down right side on the corner of the firefox window" where it says what is currently loading, it usually takes long for the "w.sharethis.com" or something like that to load. </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-227 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:35:15 +0000 ShareThisSupport 227@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Hello</p> <p>We did some performance testing with the FireFox add-on, Firebug, found at: </p> <p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843</a></p> <p>We then timed the total site load time to be around 30s with ShareThis enabled. We then disabled the ShareThis calls, by forcing the calls to our server to point locally. With the removal of ShareThis, the site load time ended up to be be around 28.5 seconds (1.5s difference). </p> <p>We'll be more than happy to help troubleshoot this issue, if you still think ShareThis might be causing it. We would, however, like to know your testing procedures, to better understand ourselves as to why the issue may be on our side.</p> <p>We'll do everything we can to help.</p> <p>Thanks for using ShareThis! </p> http://forums.sharethis.com/topic/share-this-is-killing-my-website-its-making-it-slow-please-help#post-224 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:47:33 +0000 germz 224@http://forums.sharethis.com/ <p>Share this is killing my site. It takes about 10 to 15 seconds to load the plug in. Please help me. The url of my site is <a href="http://www.thegermz.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thegermz.com</a> </p>