[whatwg] Script preloading

Jake Archibald jaffathecake at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 07:47:27 PDT 2013


On 10 July 2013 17:37, Jake Archibald <jaffathecake at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 July 2013 16:39, Kyle Simpson <getify at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I personally don't care about scripts being discoverable by pre-parsers. I
>> have done testing and am not convinced that something appearing earlier (in
>> markup) leads to better performance than allowing my script loading logic to
>> load things when I want, and just relying on the browser to do that as
>> quickly as possible.
>
>
> Pre-parsers can kick in before a page is actually opened, but script cannot
> be executed. Let me dig up some numbers on the benefits of this & report
> back.

Here it is: https://plus.sandbox.google.com/+IlyaGrigorik/posts/8AwRUE7wqAE
~20% improvement.



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