Add Lazy Loading Social Sharing Buttons to your WordPress Blog

One of the most common and important parts of every blog is a collection of social media buttons i.e. Facebook’s Like button, Twitter’s tweet button, Google’s +1 button etc. Each social platform adds a JavaScript file with its buttons, this means when a blog page loads it has to wait for the 300kb of social media. This hangs the rendering of the page which results in increased page load time. To resolve this issue some of the really big blogs have devised certain techniques through which the social media buttons can be loaded asynchronously. In this tutorial you will learn how to add this “lazy loading” social sharing buttons to your WordPress blog.

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