Thursday, March 28, 2024

Is Your Website Bogged Down With Old JavaScript Libraries

Owners of websites are usually concerned about performance issues and bottlenecks on their sites, and will often consider using the latest server software or hardware enhancements. The real culprit may actually lie closer to the web page itself, or more specifically, the old, outdated JavaScript libraries it uses.

Some development teams pay close attention to updates for the JavaScript libaries, but more often than not, you are likely to find archaic copies of YUI, jQuery and SPRY referenced on many websites. CSS class name lookups also take a considerable amount of time, causing pageloading to take as long as 80ms longer.

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