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Yeah, I know - but why bother? Just host the libs yourself and be done with it. Plus that way you can bundle them with your other scripts and save a request.

Edit: To clarify - the reason I don't like the above solution is because if the CDN is slow to respond for some reason, you've just wasted a bunch of your user's time before loading your self hosted version.

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> bundle them with your other scripts and save a request

There's huge merit in that IMO for single-page type applications that have many lib dependencies.

For content-based pages (dunno what to call them, whatever the opposite of single page apps are) the benefits stated by Google/others are more apparent with the CDN with local fallback approach.

I figure most content sites that are including jQuery are likely including some other third party libs. In the case of more than one external lib I think bundling makes sense and has a positive impact.

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