The latest update to Ident Engine includes a number of performance improvements. The first is the use of CSS sprites to display website icons. Ident Engine can make a lot of web connections which are often queued by the browsers. Grouping all the icons into a single file helps with download speeds and improves the redraw of the HTML pages.
The Ident Engine JavaScript files are quite large so I have compressed them using Yahoo’s yuicompressor. This has reduced the files sizes by over 20%.
I have also added a number of new social media sites:
- 43places.com
- blippr.com
- cliqset.com
- joost.com
- netvibes.com
- plurk.com
- soup.io
- smugmug.com
- twitpic.com
- ustream.tv
- viddler.com
- wordpress.com
- live.xbox.com
- xing.com
- profiles.yahoo.com
- yiid.com
