[LINK] How Websites load

[Alex (Maxious) Sadleir]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Richard Chirgwin
<rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
> Which brings me to the question: is there any good reason for the
> page-stall? Could a good Web designer say "ok, show them content, let
> them navigate while we backfill all our measurement trackers"? If just
> one of the servers is slow to respond, it may well be thirty seconds
> before you can actually USE the damn pages that insist on all this drivel.

Yes they can: http://www.electrictoolbox.com/load-javascript-files-asynchronously/

Google even suggest this for their tracking:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/asyncTracking