Facebook Overhauls Like Box, Claims Plugin Is Now Two To Four Times Faster

Developers like speed, and Facebook obliged by revamping its like box, saying in a note on the Facebook Engineering page that the plugin is now two to four times faster after being rebuilt from the ground up.

Developers like speed, and Facebook obliged by revamping its like box, saying in a note on the Facebook Engineering page that the plugin is now two to four times faster after being rebuilt from the ground up.

The social network offered more details on how it was able to boost the performance of its like box:

  • New, smaller components: The plugin is made of little components (box, buttons, etc.), and we’ve simplified and cleaned those up to use fewer bytes in HTML markup and CSS.
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