2 Reasons Why You Should Not Enable AJAX Comment Submission
Each time we sit for designing our blogs, one thing we keep in mind is that our blogs need to be attractive, user-friendly, and nice. For that, many of us put a lot of ‘advantages’ to increase the ‘user-friendliness’ of their blogs. However, sometimes it causes counter. Too many plugins, in case you’re using that, will make your blog’s loading time slow. Also, there are some disadvantages that you should beware of before applying to your busy blog.
One thing I find interesting is AJAX. Ajax makes everything faster, simpler, and undoubtedly gorgeous. However, it has some disadvantages too. Some people use Ajax comment submission (or whatever it is called) in their comment system. This means when a commentator presses the “Submit Comment” button, the comment will be posted without reloading the whole page. This obviously makes your readers feel a little more comfortable. But how much it is worth?
A reader posts a comment when he thinks that he has something to say. And when his cursor approaches to the Submit button, he isn’t afraid of the reloading of the whole page. So, it is not a mandatory option that your blog should have. From that I can imagine that you add that option as an additional feature for your blog.
But have you ever guessed that this is reducing your total pageview? If you have adsense or other cost-per-impression based advertisements enabled, you are losing revenue just because of thoughtless implementation of ajax comment submission system.
Let’s draw the disadvantages of ajax comment posting/submission system I’ve found so far.
- As Ajax disables reloading the entire page after a comment is posted, you are losing 1 page view each time a comment is posted.
- Sometimes comments are not published as readers leave or close the page thinking that the comment has been submitted. I experienced this several times. Sometimes internet connection makes trouble. At that time, when I clicked the submit button on an ajax enabled blog, it showed me that the comment was being posted. It usually takes a few seconds to be posted. So, after a few seconds, I closed the tab containing that page as I thought the comment was posted. By that time, I didn’t know that my connection is experiencing troubles.
I have tried to put up the main things of my post. If you’re still unsure, I advice, read the above bullet points three more time. Put much attention onto the first one — loss of pageviews. You will surely realize why I say that ajax commenting system has disadvantages.
Note: One thing may come up to your mind that my blog has an AJAX-enabled comment system. In fact, I can’t do anything about it as long as I’m using third-party comment system. Some people use extra plugin just to make their comment ajax-enabled. I was talking about them. It’s not worth adding a plugin for ajax as it reduces the pageview of your blog. However, if you’re using IntenseDebate, Disqus or any other third-party comment system, then your case is different.
What’s your point?
Now, share with us if you have any experience with AJAX comment posting system on your or others’ blog. Do you agree that it reduces your pageview so you should avoid using it?
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