JavaScript: Split the Initial Payload

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By bloid
via stevesouders.com
Submitted: May 15 2008 / 12:14

The growing adoption of Ajax and DHTML means today’s web pages have more JavaScript than ever before. The average top ten U.S. web site[1] contains 252K of JavaScript. JavaScript slows pages down. When the browser starts downloading or executing JavaScript it won’t start any other parallel downloads. Also, anything below an external script is not rendered until the script is completely downloaded and executed. Even in the case where external scripts are cached the execution time can still slow down the user experience and thwart progressive rendering.

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