Reduce HTTP requests or not?

Question

A theoretical question:
We all know about the pro\'s of minifying and combining javascript files in order to reduce HTTP requests to speed up a website. But when popular jav

Answer 1

There's no particular reason that getting one script would be faster than getting it split. It happens because browser concurrent downloads are limited, but not by one.

I think the idea should be to handle synchronous UI scripts first, and then the "user activity response" scripts (like validation, etc).

All else given equal, option B looks as the best one.