I'm not sure if this belongs here or in the Google Page Speed group, but our Page Speed score is getting heavily penalized due to Google Maps (using v3). I've found other postings that touch on the topic, but nothing really addressing what we're trying to do to work around it.
One thing I've tried is to use a timeout to display the map and its markers after a couple seconds, but all of the Maps scripts and processing is included in the page when it loads, which doesn't help the page speed score. Another thing I've tried to do is to somehow separate the Maps loading from the main page and load the map and the main http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false script that loads all the other 9 js files, which are what is being reported in Page Speed. I thought using Ajax or maybe an iframe to load all the necessary Google Maps files outside of the main page (to improve the Page Speed score), but when that fires off after the rest of the page loads (via appending the script dynamically), the page turns blank due to the document.write in http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false. Does anybody have any suggestions or insight into either Page Speed or Maps that could help with this scenario, or because Maps v3 uses document.write is there no way to get around it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
