1) v3 has its own group: http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3
2) Trying to 'fudge' your page just to get a better 'score' seems a funny concept to me. You want to increase your page complexity just to 'lie' to 'Page Speed' - but the user is still going to have to load the Maps API to use the map, so its not really actully going to help the user. The user is the important thing not 'Page Speed' On the other hand you can use techniques to load the page in stages - so the page displays as quickly as possible, and useable, only then do you load the interactive features of the maps. So this is done with the intention of speeding up the user experience. (for this last bit I beleive you can load the Maps API in a async function via the AJAX 2010/1/28 Austin <[email protected]>: > 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. > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - -- 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.
