What's Making Your Site Go Slow? Could Be The Like Button

Based on a number of reports, it has become pretty clear that the Like buttons and other Facebook social plugins have been slowing down many of the sites that use their product.

For months now it has been a well known fact among the developer community that Facebook’s plugins can frequently run into loading problems. While Facebook is well aware of the issue, and most definitely working on resolving it, that doesn’t stop the fact that the page load can be extremely slow.