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GSuite has status reports for things like this, and it tends to be a good way to confirm a Google service outage[0]. Direct link to the issue[1]. [0] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status [1] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=d4...
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For something like jquery, you can host locally and fallback to it if the CDN fails. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1014251
Loading JavaScript libraries synchronously should be avoided if possible, making the above solution not a great one.
Lets just hope that 8.8.8.8 remains stable. That can cause a whole heck of a lot more problems if it goes down.
Lets just hope that 8.8.8.8 remains stable. That can cause a whole heck of a lot more problems if it goes down.
That's why the smart money defaults to 8.8.4.4...
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2 reasons: 1. If you're still using HTTP 1.x, sharding assets across origins lets the browser load them in parallel (if set up correctly). You can generally load just 6 assets in parallel per origin, and sharding is a way to get around that limit. 2. A library like jQuery is so popular, and is so often served from googles CDN, that chances are a user already has it in their local cache from when they downloaded it on…
> If you're still using HTTP 1.x Not sure why it was phrased that way but...isn't everybody? I know that HTTP/2 is released and browsers support it, but I'm fairly certain that next to nobody is actually doing anything with it.
I also use HTTP2 at work, and on every personal project. It's supported by every browser [1], and comes with a slew of benefits. It's usually trivial to set up, if you want to give it a shot.
I think it's a little premature to be calling this a "meltdown". It's like calling one block of houses with power fluctuations a "blackout".
GSuite has status reports for things like this, and it tends to be a good way to confirm a Google service outage[0]. Direct link to the issue[1]. [0] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status [1] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=d4...
Lets just hope that 8.8.8.8 remains stable. That can cause a whole heck of a lot more problems if it goes down.
> Lets just hope that 8.8.8.8 remains stable. That's why the smart money defaults to 8.8.4.4...
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Is there a good reason to use these things hosted by a third party source? Libraries are tiny, the fonts can be downloaded from Google Fonts and embedded locally, etc. Even the Google Analytics JS script I presume can be stored and run local. Shouldn't a goal be to mitigate the number of possible failures which can bring down your site by reducing the number of single points of failure?
IIRC Google Fonts aren't easy to download because they vary by user agent.