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I have used the OnlyWire button on many websites over the last few years.
I have now removed it.
The reason was because I was having very slow load times, on this blog and some others. All had the OnlyWire button.
When the button was removed the load-time problems diaappeared. I’m not talking milliseconds either. The OnlyWire button was, in my opinion adding 5 or more seconds to page load time.
That kind of slow loading will kill your traffic. People won’t wait.
So Adios OnlyWire.
I have other gripes about OnlyWire that had let me to stop using it for bookmarking a while back.
The company has introduced lots of hoops for users to jump through. I guess they don’t want people using it. Aside from the load-time issue they just made it hard to use by trying to bully users into using the OnlyWire Firefox plugin (which means you have to use Firefox). They did a couple other lame things too. Phmeh!
Instead I’ve put “Sociable” buttons on this blog. We’ll see how that goes.
As far as bookmarking, I prefer the results I get running a desktop software. The problem with services like OnlyWire is you have to login and confirm 
