Behind Facebook’s Faster Recommendations Plugin
Facebook continued its efforts to boost the speed of its social plugins, with Software Engineer Stoyan Stefanov detailing in a post on his blog how he was able to double the speed of the social network’s recommendations plugin.
Facebook continued its efforts to boost the speed of its social plugins, with Software Engineer Stoyan Stefanov detailing in a post on his blog how he was able to double the speed of the social network’s recommendations plugin.
Stefanov was also behind the effort in February to boost the performance of Facebook’s like box plugin.
He wrote of the process of speeding up the recommendations plugin:
The techniques used to make it faster are simple and effective: better resource packaging, reducing number of requests, inlining CSS, reducing the amount of CSS and JavaScript by untangling dependencies, cleaning up, and sometimes simply rewriting.
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