Hi Bill,
Thanks for reaching out, Katherine shared this thread with me so I figured I would drop a reply.
We've had the social widgets throughout the site for quite some times now, honestly I cannot remember a time when they weren't there, but I'm sure those that have been on the site before my time can. And we have not had any other reports of load issues related to these social widgets, which does mean that the issue could be isolated to your browser, or hardware.
I did notice that you have the Norton Anti-Virus plug in tied into your browser, I have not personally had any positive experiences with the Norton Anti-Virus application and find that it over uses computer resources and typically comes with a lot of what we call "bloat", it typically slows down applications and can in some cases actually put viruses on your computer when attempting to remove it.
I understand, as Katherine has shared with me, that you are not having load issues with any other websites but a quick search on Google indicates that bugs have been reported for both Chrome and Internet Explorer using Norton Security. If you could try disabling the plug in completely and try using the site again after clearing cache and cookies to ensure that there aren't any lingering elements from the browser we would appreciate that.
Alternatively, if you have Firefox and it doesn't have the Norton plug in, please try that browser and let us know if you notice any difference in load time.
I'll let Katherine know to follow up with you via email as well, keep us posted on how things go.
Thanks!
Jameela
wrsomers wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone else is having a problem with the loading speed of pages here. It seems TG has incorporated a series of Google + pop ups on each page. Here is a screen shot showing what I mean. It appears just below the main menu bar on the top right of the screen:
These items slow down page loading and at times make my browsers crash (not responding). It happens in both Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Katherine/Jameela...Is there anything that can be done about this? This feature is ruining my experience here.
Bill