I know it’s possible to disable the build-in jQuery and replace it with google’s CDN. The question is: should I? Is it actually faster/ better for the user?
Technically it’s slower because it’s grabbing code from another source besides your own server. But it all depends on how you cache everything.
That old wise saying about serving common scripts and fonts from Google’s CDNs being faster than self-hosting them, has not been true for a good while now.
Never rely on external ‘services’ for such things, especially not Google.
Remote files are almost always slower.
Google can’t be trusted to not monetise your usage of it.
And it’s only 30-50kb, so why bother.
Technically it’s slower because it’s grabbing code from another source besides your own server. But it all depends on how you cache everything.
That old wise saying about serving common scripts and fonts from Google’s CDNs being faster than self-hosting them, has not been true for a good while now.
Never rely on external ‘services’ for such things, especially not Google.
Remote files are almost always slower.
Google can’t be trusted to not monetise your usage of it.
And it’s only 30-50kb, so why bother.