September 2007
Intermediate to advanced
170 pages
4h 24m
English
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Chapter 14. Rule 12: Remove Duplicate Scripts
It hurts performance to include the same JavaScript file twice in one page. This mistake isn't as unusual as you might think. A review of the 10 top U.S. web sites shows that two of them (CNN and YouTube) contain a duplicated script.
How does this happen? How does it affect performance? How can it be avoided? Let's take a look.
Duplicate Scripts—They Happen
Two main factors increase the odds of a script being duplicated in a single web page: team size and number of scripts.
It takes a significant amount of resources to develop a web site, especially if it's a top destination. In addition to the core team building the site, other teams contribute to the HTML in the page for things such as advertising, branding (logos, headers, footers, etc.), and data feeds (news stories, sports scores, TV listings, etc.). With so many people from different teams adding HTML to the page, it's easy to imagine how the same script could be added twice. For example, two developers might be contributing JavaScript code that requires manipulating cookies, so each of them includes the company's cookies.js script. Both developers are unaware that the other has already added the script to the page.
As shown in Table 14-1, the average number of scripts in the 10 top U.S. sites is greater than six (this information is also given in Table 3-1 from Chapter 3). The two sites that have duplicate scripts also happen to have an above-average number of scripts (CNN has 11; ...
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