Does the [removed] tag position in HTML affects performance of the webpage?

Question

If the script tag is above or below the body in a HTML page, does it matter for the performance of a website?

And what if used in between like this:

Answer 1

Performance of the script itself will definitely be the same.

The placement is important though, as explained in the article you linked, since the browser will "halt" (or "freeze") simultaneous downloads and rendering of the page when it encounters and loads the contents of a