Where do I put the jQuery script tag? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Steve Souders' book High Performance Web Sites recommends putting scripts at the bottom, before the tag. You can also find this documented at the developer.yahoo.com site here. (It's the fourth recommendation in the list.)

I generally put the scripts at the bottom, before my '' tag and have had few issues with this. I've noticed that this helps performance on older browsers like IE7 a lot more than it does with newer ones like FF3.6, Chrome and IE9. The older browsers only support 2 parallel downloads, whereas the newer ones support something 6 connections. The blocking, as a result, isn't as noticeable.

Hope this helps!