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.
