Comments on: Letting Google Load jQuery… The Right Way

By: Raymond Crandall

Raymond Crandall — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:45:37 +0000

Directly loading the jQuery library may be faster in terms of the request speed, but if you have many requests to make in order to load your page then it would be faster to load from another domain. Some browsers limit how many requests can simultaneously be made per domain, and this increases the amount of requests that can be made.

I would always recommend using a content delivery network when possible.

By: CoryMathews

CoryMathews — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:30:06 +0000

@James

I am not sure how it compares, Without testing I would guess that directly loading the jquery file should be faster. Using the form you mention requires loading some google js that would then process and load the jquery. Seems like more work then just directly calling the jquery. It bet it would also delay the running of the jquery since it would not start loading until the js was run. But it may be worth a test here in the near future.

By: James Heggs

James Heggs — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:36:35 +0000

Hi Cory,

Would you recommend using this method over using Googles AJAX API functionality like so:

// Load jQuery
google.load(“jquery”, “1.3.2″);

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