I created a vanillaJS script that is used by several other websites. The script-server went down for a couple of minutes last week and the result was that several of the sites using the script were not loading correctly (slow, pages not loading at all, errors, etc.) because the sites kept on "waiting" for the external script to load.
I noticed ALL these sites had the script in de head. I suggested moving the script-tag to the footer plus adding the 'async' attribute. But is this the best solution?
Sidenotes:
- Can't use jQuery
- Can't use a framework like Angular or React
- Preferably don't use additional JS on the site itself
- The script created it's own content and does not rely on anything on the page it's served on. It simply created a div with content from a datababase staticly served in very basic JS to avoid cross-site errors.
Thanks in advance.
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async will make the script to load asynchronously and will be be executed while the page is reading.
defer will make the script to execute once the page is loaded although it's highly depends on the browser at to my tests IE9, IE8 supports this. You can make a quick check with this defer in fiddler
But there is one more alternative to have the script tag at the bottom as
<script>
window.onload = function() {
var element = document.createElement("script");
element.src = "vanillaJS .js";
document.body.appendChild(element);
};
</script>
But i guess these will not solve your problem where the script is not accessible cause of server fault. I suggest to have the local copy of the script in the website folder and reference it.
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