google.load
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- ukit
http://code.google.com/apis/ajax…
I noticed Google will let you load your JQuery files directly off their server instead of hosting them yourself. Anyone using this approach and do you think it's worthwhile?
- kev_charlton0
We've started using it at work...defo a good thing, specifically from a caching perspective. Decent overview of the benefits here: http://encosia.com/2008/12/10/3-…
- fugged0
A CDN can sometimes help improve site performance for some users by providing content that's located on servers that are located closer to them.
Depends on the traffic, the filesizes, etc...
At work, we use bitgravity for all of our static content (css, js, images). But, Google is free :)
- markeebee0
It's definitely worthwhile from a performance perspective, if you get a reasonable amount of traffic. There are a couple of benefits; it reduces your bandwidth usage (I know the jQuery lib seems tiny, but multiply it by a million visitors and that's a fair chunk of bandwidth), and requesting the .js file from a different server means that more files will be able to download concurrently from yours.
Just one thing—it might not be worth using the google.load method if you're only getting jQuery: http://tinyurl.com/y872mja