While developing the NextGEN Facebook OG plugin for WordPress, which adds social buttons from Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc. to content and pages (along with several other features), I found the response time from these websites to be disappointing at times. When speed testing the pages of my websites, the JavaScript and images from these social elements would sometimes be a significant part of the total page load time. You can’t really save a copy of these files and serve them yourself, because they are frequently updated. You could create a cronjob to update them on a regular basis, but the maintenance of this can be cumbersome (as you add or remove files, etc.). It’s much easier to use a PHP method that caches and refreshes the remote files, and translate the URL at the same time. For example, something like:
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