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Asynchronous Javascript

Improve page load performance by asynchronously loading javascript using head.js
Ratings
3.7
Last updated
November 2, 2013
Version
1.3.5
Active installations
300
Asynchronous Javascript

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
Freeon Creator plan
Active installations
300
Tested up to
3.5.2
This plugin is available for download to be used on your WordPress self-hosted installation.