Comments on: Serve External Javascript Files locally for Increased Speed http://www.askapache.com/javascript/serve-external-javascript-files-locally-for-increased-speed.html Advanced Web Development Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:28:48 -0500 hourly 1 By: s.Daniel http://www.askapache.com/javascript/serve-external-javascript-files-locally-for-increased-speed.html#comment-104277 s.Daniel Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:46:20 +0000 http://www.askapache.com/?p=1542#comment-104277 <p>Since millions of sites use GA hosting ga.js locally doesn't seem to make sense to me. If I'm not missing something in almost every case users will have their own version of <code>ga.js</code> cached localy and won't need to download it again. </p> <p>See <a href="http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55466" rel="nofollow">Can I host the ga.js file locally?</a> for more information. Also the DNS lookup is less likely to be performed when a user hits your site as it's likely not the first time he/she uses a site with ga installed.</p> Since millions of sites use GA hosting ga.js locally doesn’t seem to make sense to me. If I’m not missing something in almost every case users will have their own version of ga.js cached localy and won’t need to download it again.

See Can I host the ga.js file locally? for more information. Also the DNS lookup is less likely to be performed when a user hits your site as it’s likely not the first time he/she uses a site with ga installed.

]]> By: tid http://www.askapache.com/javascript/serve-external-javascript-files-locally-for-increased-speed.html#comment-64687 tid Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:33:25 +0000 http://www.askapache.com/?p=1542#comment-64687 For google, they probably are updating the ga.js regularly, so it might not be a good idea to keep it locally, right? For google, they probably are updating the ga.js regularly, so it might not be a good idea to keep it locally, right?

]]> By: bob http://www.askapache.com/javascript/serve-external-javascript-files-locally-for-increased-speed.html#comment-47326 bob Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:57:10 +0000 http://www.askapache.com/?p=1542#comment-47326 <p>I think there could be a good article for you to do with applying this method to google maps. There's some trickery involved I think, I had a quick try and get the error</p> <blockquote>this website is not auth'd for this key</blockquote> <p>Nice site mate, good to see it's still going strong.</p> I think there could be a good article for you to do with applying this method to google maps. There’s some trickery involved I think, I had a quick try and get the error

this website is not auth’d for this key

Nice site mate, good to see it’s still going strong.

]]> By: Amir http://www.askapache.com/javascript/serve-external-javascript-files-locally-for-increased-speed.html#comment-46798 Amir Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:47:21 +0000 http://www.askapache.com/?p=1542#comment-46798 Hi I get 'TERM environment variable not set' error; could you please tell what the problem is and how to solve it? I used one of your older shell scripts to cache URCHIN of GA, but now, i've got more js files to cache so i need this new version of your script to work. I want to cache ShareThis js file, MyBlogLog js file, Quantserve js file and Google Analytics js file. Thanks for your wonderful articles, Keep up the good work. Hi
I get ‘TERM environment variable not set’ error; could you please tell what the problem is and how to solve it?
I used one of your older shell scripts to cache URCHIN of GA, but now, i’ve got more js files to cache so i need this new version of your script to work.
I want to cache ShareThis js file, MyBlogLog js file, Quantserve js file and Google Analytics js file.
Thanks for your wonderful articles,
Keep up the good work.

]]> By: DG http://www.askapache.com/javascript/serve-external-javascript-files-locally-for-increased-speed.html#comment-45914 DG Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:37:47 +0000 http://www.askapache.com/?p=1542#comment-45914 Hi, I think you need to replace the last bit in crontab command with <pre>/dev/null 2>&1</pre>, because I'm getting <strong>"term variable not set error"</strong>. Hi,

I think you need to replace the last bit in crontab command with 

/dev/null 2>&1

, because I’m getting “term variable not set error”.

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