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"Facebook has announced the release of a new\u00A0Like Box\u00A0plugin, rewritten &amp;quot;from the ground up&amp;quot; to be up to four times faster with\u00A0smaller components, less CSS (now inline) and asynchronously loading JavaScript.\r\n\r\nThe Like Box plugin, pictured below, has proved extremely popular on the Web, but it has also become known for significantly\u00A0weighing down sites, especially on slower connections. Given the ubiquity of Facebook and the popularity of this plugin among site owners, any improvement at all could quickly alter the way many people experience the Web.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAccording to\u00A0Facebook developer\u00A0Stoyan Stefanov, the Like Box plugin in its simplest form (no stream, no friend faces, almost like a Like Button) has dropped from 15 resources to four, loads four times faster and is only\u00A046K, instead of\u00A0245K.\r\n\r\nYou can view the\u00A0before\u00A0and\u00A0after\u00A0WebPagetest runs to see exactly what's changed.\r\n\r\nSimilar advancements have been made to more\u00A0complex configurations:\r\nTake a look at the waterfalls when the show_faces option is true (example):\r\n\r\n\tbefore\r\n\tafter\r\n\r\nWe have more requests because of the friend's photos, but the initial paint is 0.3s (was 2.1s) and the\u00A0onload\u00A0fires at 0.75s (was 2.4s).\r\nThis news follows the release of\u00A0Facebook's speedier Like button plugin.\r\n\r\nImage credit:\u00A0AFP/Stringer/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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