Well, first I felt sorry about retiring this plugin since Snap Shots™ was my first plugin I first installed on the first day of blogging. Thought it was fun and eye-candy. But on the other hand I realized that Snap Shots is kinda bloated in a sense that it makes your page loading heavy and thus slow. However this doesn’t mean that Snap Shots is not good for your site. I guess this is primarily because number of my wordpress plugins increases over time. Yeah it’s my bad for having bundle of “toys” in my wordpress – my apology.

As a compensation I am going to explain my rationale for removing Snap Shots plugin. First, Snap Shots uses JavaScript to display the snapshot of the url you’re about to visit. And the script being used doesn’t actualy reside on your server but resides in Snap Shots server(s) instead, which means that your browser needs to retrieve the script from their server(s) for the Snap Shots to function properly. As a result, your blog now becomes dependant on those servers. Experienced Google uptime glitch lately? What if Snap Shots servers were down? then your blog will be crippled without Snap Shots. Although at least not paralyzed.

Well to help you better picture the former explanation, lets take a simple example. Say you wish to rent a costume for a Halloween party but your favourite costume rental shop was closed due to unknown circumstances. As a result you wouldn’t able to show up to the fullest without the costume that you’ve planned before. I’m sure you would feel “crippled”. The same notion for blog.

Having said that, bloggers can still benefit something from Snap Shots as explained in my other post, provided the former case doesn’t occur often. So if you’re a new blogger, hope this post can help you make your decision.