I was recently reviewing a customers eCommerce site and I noticed that the “Please Wait” page that occurs after completing an order but before you view the order was taking a long time to load. Using Firebug I traced the issue down to an external script that was taking it’s sweet time to download; it was for affiliate tracking on a 3rd party site.
I’m all for tracking, but not at the expense of performance. Though I haven’t seen an affiliate/ad partner use the defer attribute on their script tags before, there is good reason for you to add it. Consider the following example:
SlowRequest.aspx is just an ASP.NET page that after a 2 second delay, returns some JavaScript (not my finest code I might add)
Sure enough, for the first two seconds, all you see is
And finally (2 seconds later)
Luckily for this example, this information isn’t overly pertinent – but if it were my order status, it would be. Luckily a quick defer=”defer” attribute on your script tag and the wait is gone; the external script is loaded after the DOM is ready:
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