jQuery Design Patterns

Using CDNs

Instead of serving all of the JavaScript and CSS files of the third-party libraries from your web server, you should consider using a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Using a CDN to serve the static files of the libraries that are used by your website can make it load faster since:

• CDNs have high speed connections and several caching levels.
• CDNs have many geographically distributed servers that can deliver the requested files faster since they are closer to the end user.
• CDNs help parallelize resource requests, since most browsers can only download up to four resources concurrently from any specific domain.

Moreover, if a user has static resources cached from a previous visit to another website that uses the same CDN, he or she will not ...