Re:Why loading third party scripts async is not good enough
by roc on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @12:12PM
(#3270729)
> "The only only difference is that you're delaying the inevitable and doing so doesn't always help user experience a bit."
"Always" seems like an unnecessarily high bar. If any meaningful fraction of your users would be better served by getting readable content in 2 seconds and having to wait 10-90 seconds for third-party features, I would absolutely say this is definitely a worthwhile optimization. Even if it leaves some speed-reading twitterer waiting the same 10-90 additional seconds for those features to load and render.
"Always" seems like an unnecessarily high bar. If any meaningful fraction of your users would be better served by getting readable content in 2 seconds and having to wait 10-90 seconds for third-party features, I would absolutely say this is definitely a worthwhile optimization. Even if it leaves some speed-reading twitterer waiting the same 10-90 additional seconds for those features to load and render.