Don’t include external JS for custom content example Goodreads
On many websites, you can have content embedded from other sites and one way that most external sites will offer will be to include a script that’s hosted on their website.
But if all that script does is including some remote content there are better ways to get that, that will provide customizations and performance.
For example, the website Goodreads offers such an embed JS with a list of the latest books you read, and you must include the script where you want the content to be shown. But that has a long list of drawbacks: the script uses the old API document.write
, is a script and can’t be loaded in AMP, the scripts write very old style HTML with tags like center, attributes like border which again is not valid AMP, then also that script will be loaded for every request, so you’ll have one additional request. View full article