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Problem:

Is the recommendation to include CSS before JavaScript invalid?

Solution 1:

require 'rubygems'
require 'eventmachine'
require 'evma_httpserver'
require 'date'

class Handler  < EventMachine::Connection
  include EventMachine::HttpServer

  def process_http_request
    resp = EventMachine::DelegatedHttpResponse.new( self )

    return unless @http_query_string

    path = @http_path_info
    array = @http_query_string.split("&").map{|s| s.split("=")}.flatten
    parsed = Hash[*array]

    delay = parsed["delay"].to_i / 1000.0
    jsdelay = parsed["jsdelay"].to_i

    delay = 5 if (delay > 5)
    jsdelay = 5000 if (jsdelay > 5000)

    delay = 0 if (delay < 0) 
    jsdelay = 0 if (jsdelay < 0)

    # Block which fulfills the request
    operation = proc do
      sleep delay 

      if path.match(/.js$/)
        resp.status = 200
        resp.headers["Content-Type"] = "text/javascript"
        resp.content = "(function(){
            var start = new Date();
            while(new Date() - start < #{jsdelay}){}
          })();"
      end
      if path.match(/.css$/)
        resp.status = 200
        resp.headers["Content-Type"] = "text/css"
        resp.content = "body {font-size: 50px;}"
      end
    end

    # Callback block to execute once the request is fulfilled
    callback = proc do |res|
        resp.send_response
    end

    # Let the thread pool (20 Ruby threads) handle request
    EM.defer(operation, callback)
  end
end

EventMachine::run {
  EventMachine::start_server("0.0.0.0", 8081, Handler)
  puts "Listening..."
}

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The above mini server allows me to set arbitrary delays for JavaScript files (both server and client) and arbitrary CSS delays. For example, http://10.0.0.50:8081/test.css?delay=500 gives me a 500 ms delay transferring the CSS. we use the following page to test.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
      <title>test</title>
      <script type='text/javascript'>
          var startTime = new Date();
      </script>
      <link href="http://10.0.0.50:8081/test.css?delay=500" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
      <script type="text/javascript" src="http://10.0.0.50:8081/test2.js?delay=400&jsdelay=1000"></script> 
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>
      Elapsed time is: 
      <script type='text/javascript'>
        document.write(new Date() - startTime);
      </script>
    </p>    
  </body>
</html>

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When I include the CSS first, the page takes 1.5 seconds to render:

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When I include the JavaScript first, the page takes 1.4 seconds to render:

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Solution 2:

set up my own test harness in Node (code below). Basically, I:

Made sure there was no HTTP caching so the browser would have to do a full download each time a page is loaded.
To simulate reality, I included jQuery and the H5BP CSS (so there's a decent amount of script/CSS to parse)
Set up two pages - one with CSS before script, one with CSS after script.
Recorded how long it took for the external script in the <head> to execute
Recorded how long it took for the inline script in the <body> to execute, which is analogous to DOMReady.
Delayed sending CSS and/or script to the browser by 500ms.
Ran the test 20 times in the 3 major browsers.

Solution 3:

app.js

var express = require('express')
, app = express.createServer()
, fs = require('fs');

app.listen(90);

var file={};
fs.readdirSync('.').forEach(function(f) {
    console.log(f)
    file[f] = fs.readFileSync(f);
    if (f != 'jquery.js' && f != 'style.css') app.get('/' + f, function(req,res) {
        res.contentType(f);
        res.send(file[f]);
    });
});


app.get('/jquery.js', function(req,res) {
    setTimeout(function() {
        res.contentType('text/javascript');
        res.send(file['jquery.js']);
    }, 500);
});

app.get('/style.css', function(req,res) {
    setTimeout(function() {
        res.contentType('text/css');
        res.send(file['style.css']);
    }, 500);
});


var headresults={
    css: [],
    js: []
}, bodyresults={
    css: [],
    js: []
}
app.post('/result/:type/:time/:exec', function(req,res) {
    headresults[req.params.type].push(parseInt(req.params.time, 10));
    bodyresults[req.params.type].push(parseInt(req.params.exec, 10));
    res.end();
});

app.get('/result/:type', function(req,res) {
    var o = '';
    headresults[req.params.type].forEach(function(i) {
        o+='\n' + i;
    });
    o+='\n';
    bodyresults[req.params.type].forEach(function(i) {
        o+='\n' + i;
    });
    res.send(o);
});

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css.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>CSS first</title>
        <script>var start = Date.now();</script>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
        <script src="jquery.js"></script>
        <script src="test.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <script>document.write(jsload - start);bodyexec=Date.now()</script>
    </body>
</html>

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js.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>CSS first</title>
        <script>var start = Date.now();</script>
        <script src="jquery.js"></script>
        <script src="test.js"></script>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
    </head>
    <body>
        <script>document.write(jsload - start);bodyexec=Date.now()</script>
    </body>
</html>

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test.js

var jsload = Date.now();


$(function() {
    $.post('/result' + location.pathname.replace('.html','') + '/' + (jsload - start) + '/' + (bodyexec - start));
});