The Facebook outage and unresponsive scripts \r\n A lot has already been written about the Facebook outage earlier this week. In case you missed it (if that’s possible), Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp were all down for several hours on Monday. Facebook provided an update on the cause of the outage late Monday, citing a configuration change on their backbone routers as the root cause, with additional details in a subsequent blog post .  \r\n However, one downstream effect that received far less attention was the performance impact on millions of other web pages around the world. It turns out that (hindsight is always 20/20) many websites include scripts, or little pieces of Facebook code, in their page for several different purposes.…