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On TheMoneyPrinciple I have installed the Facebook Fan Page like box as well as Facebook Like buttons on the individual posts.  This seems a good idea but it slows the site down really badly.  It is not only that it has to go off to FB but the amount of c**p that FB squirts back is quite ridiculous.  You can see this on the posts – the Twitter links always come up a lot before the FB links.

On the FB developer pages, there are instructions to generate these asynchronously but that to me seems to be avoiding the issue.  Most of the junk that FB loads could I think be pre-loaded on my server except all sorts of random codes are included.  This is I guess to stop you changing colour schemes and stuff but it means that every time you go to a new page, the Fan Page box has to reload.  Disabling the FB plugin (Wordpress – Really Simple Facebook Twitter Share buttons) that puts the like buttons on individual posts reduces the size of the page by a factor of 3!  And checking the contents of the iframe that contains the facebook shows a whole slew of css.

I realise that FB integration with icons and stuff must be more difficult than Twitter but it seems rather over the top.  Apart from Mr Zuck kicking some programmers to make a slicker interface, can anyone suggest (a) what I may be doing wrong and/or (b) a way to speed the whole process up?

I am currently mounting on quite a small VPS but don't think just uppling the megawatts on that is the right solution!

Can anyone suggest a better way to integrate with Mr Zuck?