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Asynchronous Javascript

by Paris Holley on WordPress.org

Improve page load performance by asynchronously loading javascript using head.js

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This plugin is meant to be a drop-in to your wordpress installation with no additional configuration. The goals/features of this plugin are:

  • Load javascript files in an asynchronous manner to improve time to DomReady/OnLoad
  • Use existing wordpress APIs for backwards compatability and prevent coupling to this plugin
  • Leverage dependency model wordpress provides for assets to improve loading performance

Please submit bugs or contributions to the github location and not here on wordpress’ system:

https://github.com/parisholley/wordpress-asynchronous-javascript/

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Incompatibility

This plugin will not work out the box with the following plugins (unless they are modified to support asynchronous loading).

  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (social plugin)
  • WP Most Popular
Active installations300+
Weekly downloads
23-11.54%
Version1.3.5
Last updated11/2/2013
WordPress version3.5
Tested up to3.5.2
Tags
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