Holy Crap Kontera

Holy Crap Kontera

shoemoney · · 1 min read
Was looking at my arch nemesis John Chow's blog today and noticed 8 million things loading in the status bar. Fired up firebug and holy crap kontera loads SIXTY EIGHT (68) different things: I could not even fit them all in 1 screen shot on the 30" Apple Studio Display. Click for full image: And notice the one is a 404 (file not found).... oups. Looks like a lot of people have been removing them from their site. I was sitting with a guy from Kontera on a panel at blogworld and was asked point blank why I dont use it. I gave the honest answer... 1) Editorial control - Like with Google Adsense I have very limited editorial control over what is displayed on my site. 2) Selling yourself short - Unless you have some scrapper blog do you really want to give up your reader traffic for pennies? 3) Loading issues - as mentioned above. I challenged Kontera a while back in my forums (now killed off) and they said they would accept but I have not heard back from them sense.