Social Sharing - Reducing Button Size
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I'm looking at implementing social sharing buttons throughout a site that I'm working on.
I've souced the icons from one of the well known providers however when I test the pages with Firebug I get this:
<colgroup><col width="303"> <col width="58"> <col width="86"></colgroup>
| Version | File Size | Transfer Size |
| | | |
| Home Page With Social Media Buttons | 1.02MB | 487.7kB |
| Home Page Without Social Media Buttons | 238.3kB | 218.8kB |As you can see the buttons alone have a rather alarming impact on the file/transfer size.
I want to reduce the size, has anyone got any ideas/been here before?
Justin
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JMarch
Not sure which provider you are using, but I just pulled up a client site and with four buttons (Twit. FB like, FB share,Plus one) we are pulling 112.8 after gzip. Before gzip we get 354.5kb.
If you could provide a bit more info, we will try to assist.
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