{"id":161,"date":"2007-08-24T04:47:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T08:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/webdesign\/2007\/08\/24\/removing-widgets-to-speed-up-site-load\/"},"modified":"2011-07-07T23:25:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T03:25:39","slug":"removing-widgets-to-speed-up-site-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/webdesign\/2007\/08\/24\/removing-widgets-to-speed-up-site-load\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing widgets to speed up site load"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Earlier this evening I discovered that my sites were hanging. I could see that it was the blogcatalog widget that was hanging.  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