Streaming jquery(JS files) from a CDN (Google)

Question

This one is a case of not doing your homework.:-)

Apart from dynamic loading advantage, does it make sense to include a JavaScript library(jQuery in my case ) from

Answer 1

Are you sure scripts would be downloaded in parallel? This example from Cuzillion seems to be saying that only IE8 can do that.

Also worth finding out is how many of your pageviews are first time visitors and how many have visited the site before to help you decide how much caching will influence download time. If you have a significant number of first time visitors it's probably worth skewing it in their favour to make the first time experience as fast as possible.