How to Lazy-Load external scripts for better page speed?
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Nowadays, with an ever-growing number of web services, we tend to overload Web apps with external resources. As a result, it decreases page load speed and affects SEO score. There is a pretty easy solution for that.
Let's assume that you'd like to use the chatbot on your website. Fetching all resources might take in this case, for example, 2 seconds (which is not that unusual - trust me).
Even if your website is fully optimized to load fast, users will still have to wait 2 more seconds for full interaction.
In this case, if you don't need a chatbot to appear immediately, you can lazy-load the script:
setTimeout(function () {
var d = document,
s = d.createElement("script");
s.src = "path-to-js-script";
d.body.appendChild(s);
}, 5000);That's it. After 5 seconds, a chatbot will be fetched and attached to the body of your website.
It's important to use a time interval that is long enough to run after the page is fully loaded. In this example, I used 5s interval, but you should use the one that match to your specific case.
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