Pages freeze for a few seconds while loading

[bhale]

I have two pages on my site with a ton of content on them. They are:

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/good-cheap-gaming-computers/
http://elitegamingcomputers.com/top-gaming-computers/

When you first open them, you can scroll, but after a couple of moments they freeze for a few seconds while loading and they don't allow you to scroll up or down. This has been going on for awhile and I haven't been able to find the fix.

Not sure if it's a plugin or because there's a ton of content. I've tried disabling the Shareaholic plugin but that doesn't work.

Hopefully someone can help me out.

[Nick]

Are you sure that you fully disabled the Shareaholic plugin (and cleared any caches)? If you use Chrome's Timeline (View > Developer > Developer Tools) to debug those pages, you can see that JavaScript calls fired in shareaholic.js are taking 6 seconds to run, which is likely causing the delay:

Screenshot: http://d.pr/i/sea

This same call is visible each time your pages freeze, for a total delay of around 10 seconds.

[bhale]

Hey Nick, thanks for responding. You were absolutely right. Deactivating the plugin and clearing the cache fixed the problem.

When I did it before I just disabled Shareaholic for those pages only.

Any suggestions on a better social media sharing plugin?

[Nick]

Happy to help – glad it was a simple fix.

I like Simple Share Buttons Adder because it doesn't use third-party JavaScript and it doesn't track users – it just creates simple buttons that link directly to each site's share page. For that reason, it tends to load a lot faster.

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