Why is My Blog Loading so Slowly?????

Today is the day I usually share a technique or trick related to paper crafting.  Today's tip is about blogging instead.

I have noticed that over the last several weeks that my blog was suddenly running EXTREMELY slowly and I just didn't understand why.  It seemed like it took FOREVER to load my blog, when it used to load really quickly. It finally dawned on me that I had added a widget to my blog to allow folks to search the blog, and I should test to see if that was the trouble.  Sure enough! As soon as I removed that widget things were back up to speed.

I don't know why I thought it was needed anyway, because there is an automatic search option at the upper left corner of the window!  (Perhaps that was added when blogger changed to their newer format???)  Anyway, hopefully no one will miss the one I'd had on my blog page.  I certainly won't miss the severe slowing!