Facebook code makes for 16% of the average site… and that’s a problem

With two billion monthly active users, more than half of all netizens are now on Facebook. In fact, the social media platform has become so integral to the internet that a large number of sites nowadays contain small chunks of Facebook code. As New York-based developer Ben Regenspan explains in an insightful Medium entry, six percent of the top 10,000 most-trafficked websites load content from Facebook’s servers. For most of them, that content is likely its SDK, which is required to