{"id":461,"date":"2015-06-09T09:25:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T07:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-rocket.me\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T11:11:24","slug":"fastest-social-sharing-plugin-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-rocket.me\/blog\/fastest-social-sharing-plugin-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is the Fastest Social Sharing Plugin For WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to add social sharing buttons to your WordPress site but worried about hurting your site’s performance?
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When it comes to performance optimization, not all WordPress share button plugins are equal, which is why we busted out our test site to run some real tests and find the fastest WordPress social sharing plugin in 2019.
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More specifically, I installed ten of the most popular social share plugins on my site, collected some data, and now I’m going to share the best-performing plugins with you.
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Let’s dig in…<\/p>

Fastest WordPress Social Sharing Plugin: The Data<\/h2>

If you just want a quick look at the plugins that I tested and how they performed, this section contains a table that summarizes everything. In addition to collecting the page size and number of requests, I also ran three separate speed tests to assess the page load times.
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If you want to learn more about the environment that I used for my tests, I’ll share that at the end of the post:<\/em><\/p>

Plugin<\/td>Page Size (KB)<\/strong><\/td>Requests<\/td>Load Time 1 (s)<\/strong><\/td>Load Time 2 (s<\/strong>) <\/td>Load Time 3 (s) <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
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(baseline)<\/strong><\/td>		43.9<\/td>11<\/td>0.4<\/td>0.4<\/td>0.3<\/td><\/tr>
Social
Warfare<\/strong><\/td>		99<\/td>17<\/td>0.7<\/td>0.7<\/td>0.8<\/td><\/tr>
Monarch<\/strong><\/td>150<\/td>25<\/td>0.7<\/td>0.8<\/td>1.2<\/td><\/tr>
Social Snap<\/strong><\/td>122<\/td>16<\/td>0.6<\/td>0.7<\/td>0.5<\/td><\/tr>
AddToAny<\/strong><\/td>144<\/td>20<\/td>0.6<\/td>1.3<\/td>1.1<\/td><\/tr>
Jetpack<\/strong><\/td>134<\/td>27<\/td>0.7<\/td>0.9<\/td>1.0<\/td><\/tr>
Kiwi<\/strong><\/td>105<\/td>18<\/td>1.1<\/td>1.8 <\/td>1.7<\/td><\/tr>
MashShare<\/strong><\/td>112<\/td>15<\/td>0.6<\/td>0.7<\/td>0.6<\/td><\/tr>
Social Pug<\/strong><\/td>96.7<\/td>16<\/td>0.8<\/td>0.6<\/td>0.6<\/td><\/tr>
AddThis<\/strong><\/td>259<\/td>22<\/td>2.1<\/td>1.8<\/td>2.3<\/td><\/tr>
Sassy Social Share<\/strong><\/td>138<\/td>16<\/td>0.7<\/td>0.9<\/td>1.2<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>

The Five Fastest WordPress Social Sharing Plugins in 2019<\/h2>

Rather than sharing details for all ten plugins that I tested, I’m only going to highlight five of them, based on their page load times and the “weight” that they added to the page in terms of page size and requests.
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Remember, the base<\/em> load time for my test site with no plugin installed was ~0.36 seconds<\/strong>. So anything above that can roughly be attributed to the social share plugin in question.<\/p>

1. Social Pug<\/a><\/h3>
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Average page load<\/strong>: 0.66 seconds
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Added:<\/strong><\/p>