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How To Speed Up Widgets On Your Website

by Darren

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If you install any widgets that pull data from a different server (for example, WidgetBucks), you might notice that it slows down the speed at which your pages load. This can be a problem, because slow load page times are usually bad news because they cause people to look for their answers anywhere but your web page.

There is a way to speed up widgets

Fret not, because there’s a very simple way to speed up widgets on your websites.

1) Make an HTML page that contains all of the code you want to display in your sidebar (widgets, etc), that pulls from other websites
2) Call the HTML you just made from an iframe.

Here’s the complete code to make an iFrame and speed up your widgets:

<iframe style="overflow:hidden;border-width:0;width:100%;height:320px;"<br /> src="http://blog.planet-cell-phone.com/widget.php" name="widget"<br /> width="100"><br /> </iframe>

You’ll notice, I used style commands to do the following:

1) Remove the scroll bars: overflow = hidden.
2) Set the border width to 0 to hide the borders.
3) Set the height and weight so the WidgetBucks widget would fit inside of the iFrame.

That’s all there is to it, and you’ll notice a quick increase in responsiveness of your pages! Don’t let slow-loading widgets ruin your day anymore.

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