Is it bad for jQuery hotlink from jquery.com?

Question

This will probably be a rather unpleasant answer, but my server is not the fastest at the moment, and my site loads much faster if I have a hotlink from the jQuery main page to load content. Is it bad to do? Does jQuery remove these js files from its page?

Answer 1

It's best to associate it with the Google APIs API .

Very big advantages:

• Google fast and highly available
• Separate hosts allow the client to download jQuery simultaneously with your pages and images (browsers only support a limited number of connections per host)
• Probably even faster because many websites use it, so this version of Google is probably in your visitors cache anyway.

Answer 2

Do you use official CDNs ? Many people do.

I'm not sure why everyone speaks Google so fast. The link above very accurately says that you can reference the jQuery CDN:

jQuery CDN (via Media Temple)

http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.1.min.js Mini version

http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.1.js Original Version

Answer 3

Use the Google CDN instead. This is what it was intended for.

Answer 4

If this is bad, I have not heard about it. However, you can use CDN for better performance . Google and Microsoft also provide jQuery for free through their CDN.

cdnjs: https://cdnjs.com/libraries/jquery/

Google CDN: http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/devguide.html#Libraries

jQuery CDN: http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#CDN_Hosted_jQuery

MS CDN: http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx#Third-Party_Files_on_the_CDN_14

Answer 5

If the library is not intended to be loaded from a URL, I would avoid this.

However, Google does provide hosted versions:

http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/

Answer 6

You can use Google Libraries and link it from there :)

Answer 7

You must use versions hosted by Google:

http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/devguide.html

Answer 8

Yes this is bad. For your site, it will run slower. For your site - imagine what will happen if everyone uses it!