With regards to Twitter/FB, frustratingly in my Webmaster tools it shows our homepage loads slowly, and a huge percentage of this loading time is actually the FB/Twitter buttons.
For users this doesn't impact their perceived loading time much at all so when Google reports it as a slower load time it's an unfair bias in my opinion.
It's important to get it fast as it's a well known fact they use it as a metric in their ranking algorithms. I've tried various ways of delaying it but nothing seems to stop it being counted in page load time tools:
For users this doesn't impact their perceived loading time much at all so when Google reports it as a slower load time it's an unfair bias in my opinion.
It's important to get it fast as it's a well known fact they use it as a metric in their ranking algorithms. I've tried various ways of delaying it but nothing seems to stop it being counted in page load time tools:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9502972/stop-pingdom-coun...