[jazzyjackson]

They may not be blocking, but it's an extra burden on my limited bandwidth (slows other connections down while it downloads) and balloons the memory usage of sites that are otherwise delivering static content.

[taf2]

Usually the browser has a priority on each connection and when you load a script async the priority is set to low. Have a read here: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/r...

[jazzyjackson]

Love knowing this kind of stuff, thanks