Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful - igvita.comBy Ilya Grigorik on May 20, 2014 Synchronous scripts are bad because they force the browser to block DOM construction, fetch the script, and execute it before the browser can continue processing the rest of the page. This, of course, should not be news, and is the reason why we have been evangelizing the use of asynchronous scripts. Here is the canonical example: <!-- BAD: blocking external script
