scatter ajax,Highcharts Scatter Plot Performance

I'm new to Highcharts and have been tinkering with it a bit on jsFiddle.

A fiddle independent example would look something like this:

Highcharts Example

$(function() {

var chart;

$(document).ready(function() {

chart = new Highcharts.Chart({

chart: {

renderTo: 'container',

type: 'scatter',

zoomType: 'xy'

},

xAxis: {

type: 'datetime'

},

series: [{

color: 'rgba(223, 83, 83, .5)',

data:

[[Date.UTC(2012,10,15,12,25,47), 90.7000],

// Many more data points here, see fiddle for complete list

[Date.UTC(2013,2,7,11,37,18), 199.5000],

[Date.UTC(2013,2,7,11,37,18), 199.5000]]

}]

});

});

});

Anyways, I have a series that consists of a large set (~16k) of (datetime,float) Cartesian points that I wish to visualize on a scatter plot. I got what I wanted, but it appears to make my browser really sluggish. Particularly if I re-size the window or hover over tooltips. Looking for any advice or tips to optimize the performance or point out (no pun intended) something else I should be doing instead for this kind of visualization.