David Jeffries

Thanks to the Google reader shared items and the twitter widgets, you can now see all the links I find interesting as well as keep up to date with what I'm doing. You can also subscribe to my shared items, twitter, and this site too.

Twitter Widget Too Slow

Twitter is a good service, but it has been having growing pains even after they got some VC money. The twitter widget showing my updates slows the site significantly. Ah JavaScript widgets, what would the speed of the internet be like without you?

Typical Firebug output:

Twitter seems to go between .5 of a second and 2.5 seconds, with an average of ~1.3 seconds. I guess my next quick project will cache my twitter updates every 15 minutes to this sites database, rather than requesting it from twitter at every page load.