Comments on: Comparison of popular social bookmarking widgets

By: katrina

katrina — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:41:47 +0000

hi to all, having spend over 15 years on web, whats the point of having a mouse over pop up window in your site that shows 50 icons most of them you have never seen?

The point is that companies like add this etc advertise on your site free… and you are getting thing you really dont need… (how much is helping social sharing web sites is an other issue… )

so my opionion is go for something simple and fast, ad free, registration free, simple cut and paste like My Share Bar and stop sending to social bookmarking services trafic and money, its your site you have to focus.

info about my share bar you can find here

http://www.tecorange.com/index.php/download-free-open-source-software/78-my-share-bar-facebook-twitter-google-1-mail-print-buttons-for-web-sites

GL!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:04:02 +0000

We used ShareThis but after a few months we moved our site to AddThis. You can read this story here http://a.sw.io/YFOCjcY

By: Sujit Karpe

Sujit Karpe — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:22:50 +0000

Thanks Steven for the fantastic comparison.

Best Part is to keep it simple:
There are literally hundreds of social media sites out there, most of them you have never heard of and neither have any of your visitors. If your site serves a particular niche then it should be easy to identify the social media sites that you need to target. Just put up a couple icons and links. This will make your site load faster and make it easier to follow your presence on those social media sites. If someone wants to link your site on a social media service then not having a widget will not stop them.

By: Nikitas Georgopoulos

Nikitas Georgopoulos — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:19:52 +0000

That was a great comparison. You might find interesting our brand new sharing platform E-mailit.com

By: Steven Benner

Steven Benner — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:59:46 +0000

ShareThis has made some significant optimizations since this test. Eventually I’ll do another comparison, not sure when that’s coming though.

By: ShareThisUp

ShareThisUp — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:53:42 +0000

Very useful comparison. Here’s a new great bookmarking widget: ShareThisUp.com

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Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:17:52 +0000

[...] StevenBenner.com – a good comparison of several options, coming out slightly in favour of AddToAny. AddToAny scores high on performance, AddThis on customization. [...]

By: Mozdef

Mozdef — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:45:49 +0000

What a review, thank you, Steven! It is good to see comments from every vendor! After reading your post and the comments I did my own tests since it has been a while since your review. We ended up going with AddToAny for the better performance (still) and we love how nicely customizable it is. They have standalone icons now too.. which makes me wonder why you are still using single icons only, and why do you have Facebook last?!

By: Twistys

Twistys — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:52:50 +0000

Thanks Steven for this comparison chart.
We were looking for the best share script, and still modifying our conclusions.

We were using addtoany, but cause of a privacy issue, we drop them down.
Now we are using AddThis, but its not what we want, so for now we are trying to do a code caching..
Maybe tell-a-friend is the best answer..

By: Steven Benner

Steven Benner — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:10:24 +0000

Yeah, that is true. But you don’t see nearly as many subscribe widgets out there, compared to the prevalence of sharing widgets. If you put both of the AddToAny widgets on one page you will see a significant drop in performance compared to the other widgets.

However this whole comparison is based on the default sharing widget from each company. So the subscription widget didn’t get tested.