Blog Performance Experiment: Improving Page Load Times with Script Streaming Utkarsh Goel is an architect who likes to build unilateral technologies to improve the current state of web performance. He works at Akamai's Foundry, the cutting-edge arm of Akamai's Web Performance business unit that believes in the “fail fast, succeed faster” philosophy and focuses on exploring new technology opportunities to improve all forms of Internet performance. He can be reached at ugoel@akamai.com . With script streaming, Google claims to observe pages load 10% faster because large JavaScript files are parsed as they download. \r\n"}}"> What is script streaming? Loading JavaScript is one of the most critical bottlenecks to web performance, especially on mobile devices with a slower CPU. The cost of loading JavaScript not only includes the network time to download the bytes from a content server, but also includes the time to decompress, parse, compile, and execute the JavaScript.…