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Are people really referencing jquery from other servers in production environments?

adventured 13y ago
Yes, it's extremely common to call jQuery from, for example, Google's googleapis.com domain. Here's a quick sampling from a random group of top sites: stackoverflow.com (googleapis.com), kickstarter.com (googleapis.com), cnn.com (their own cdn), businessinsider.com (jquery.com), foxnews.com (their own cdn), nbcnews.com (aspnetcdn.com), espn.com (espncdn.com), tumblr.com (secure.assets.tumblr.com), lastfm.com (googleapis.com), lyricsmode.com (googleapis.com), reference.com (sfdict.com, cdn for ask etc), qz.com (googleapis.com), theverge.com (googleapis.com), ehow.com (googleapis.com), wikia.com (googleapis.com), chacha.com (googleapis.com)
- toble 13y ago
  Just a passing tinfoil comment... Google has so many fingers in the analytics pie, if you're not being recorded by Adsense or Analytics, then there's always CDN. No idea if it's all linked up, but it means that using alternative search engines doesn't really matter if you still visit Google-enhanced destinations.
  - eps 13y ago
    Of course it's all linked up, including other freebies such as Google Fonts. Why else would they be offering it for free.
    - shocks 13y ago
      If you're not paying for it then you are the product.
      - andybak 13y ago
        Or you're walking into an exchange of value with your eyes fully open.
        eps 13y ago
        And also dragging every visitor of your website along.
    - toble 13y ago
      If that's the case then maybe it would be better for society if we all started self hosted these sorts of resources. Longer load times, more bandwidth usage but better privacy for the public.
      - amalag 13y ago
        http://cdnjs.com/ http://cdnjs.com/
EzGraphs 13y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network. Use of these (to serve static content) reduces your server traffic/load and gives a faster response times to users in different geographical regions.
- dclowd9901 13y ago
  I definitely understand the benefit. I also understand the very serious drawbacks of not hosting content that you own. Compared to an initial load time that borders on completely negligible, I'd rather guarantee safety of user information and not having downtime coincide with the shared cdn.

Yes, it's extremely common to call jQuery from, for example, Google's googleapis.com domain. Here's a quick sampling from a random group of top sites: stackoverflow.com (googleapis.com), kickstarter.com (googleapis.com), cnn.com (their own cdn), businessinsider.com (jquery.com), foxnews.com (their own cdn), nbcnews.com (aspnetcdn.com), espn.com (espncdn.com), tumblr.com (secure.assets.tumblr.com), lastfm.com (googleapis.com), lyricsmode.com (googleapis.com), reference.com (sfdict.com, cdn for ask etc), qz.com (googleapis.com), theverge.com (googleapis.com), ehow.com (googleapis.com), wikia.com (googleapis.com), chacha.com (googleapis.com)

toble 13y ago
Just a passing tinfoil comment... Google has so many fingers in the analytics pie, if you're not being recorded by Adsense or Analytics, then there's always CDN. No idea if it's all linked up, but it means that using alternative search engines doesn't really matter if you still visit Google-enhanced destinations.
- eps 13y ago
  Of course it's all linked up, including other freebies such as Google Fonts. Why else would they be offering it for free.
  - shocks 13y ago
    If you're not paying for it then you are the product.
    - andybak 13y ago
      Or you're walking into an exchange of value with your eyes fully open.
      - eps 13y ago
        And also dragging every visitor of your website along.
  - toble 13y ago
    If that's the case then maybe it would be better for society if we all started self hosted these sorts of resources. Longer load times, more bandwidth usage but better privacy for the public.
    - amalag 13y ago
      http://cdnjs.com/ http://cdnjs.com/

EzGraphs 13y ago

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network. Use of these (to serve static content) reduces your server traffic/load and gives a faster response times to users in different geographical regions.

dclowd9901 13y ago
I definitely understand the benefit. I also understand the very serious drawbacks of not hosting content that you own. Compared to an initial load time that borders on completely negligible, I'd rather guarantee safety of user information and not having downtime coincide with the shared cdn.