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Matthew Francis
6,967 Points<script> at the bottom or use defer in script?
Nowadays, is it best practice to put script tags at the top with defer, or should you stil put it at the bottom? Also is there any scenario where async in script would be a good idea?
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Chris Shaw
26,676 PointsHi Matthew Francis,
I recommend you have a read through the articles below as they all have great coverage on this topic and go in-depth to explain each concept and how to implement them.
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/09/building-the-dom-faster-speculative-parsing-async-defer-and-preload/
- https://bitsofco.de/async-vs-defer/
- https://flaviocopes.com/javascript-async-defer/
Hope that helps!