Simple barebones project to show share counts from various social networks.SocialCount is a small jQuery plugin for progressively enhanced, lazy loaded, mobile friendly social networking widgets.
- Currently supports Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus.
- 2.93KB (after Min+GZip) or 4.18KB/4.72KB with SD/HD icons (compared to 309KB up front empty-cache pageload cost for Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus widgets)
- Easy to fit in with existing page design
- Ability to share without JavaScript or before JavaScript has loaded.
- Works with mouse, touchscreen, or keyboard.
- Mouse: On hover, loads a social network’s native widget so that the user can Like/Recommend/+1 without leaving the current page.
- Touch screen: simple redirects to dedicated network share pages.
- Keyboard: Concise tab order.
- Option to conditionally display count if it’s above a minimum threshold. Avoid goose egg ghost-town.
- Intelligent client-side caching so that two or more widgets with the same share URL only make one AJAX request.