Title: async JavaScript source
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# async JavaScript source

 *  [Michael Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/comprock/)
 * (@comprock)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/async-javascript-source/)
 * To help prevent render blocking JavaScript calls, you might consider tossing 
   an `async` into `js-css-script-optimizer.php` near line 642 for `echo "<script
   type='text/javascript'>…`. It’d become `echo "<script async type='text/javascript'
   >…`.
 * Thank you,
 * Michael
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/js-css-script-optimizer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/js-css-script-optimizer/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Michael Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/comprock/)
 * (@comprock)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/async-javascript-source/#post-6210853)
 * Line 642 above, should be for 652. Sorry. `defer async` or whatever isn’t needed
   on local script calls.
 *  [PLR DAILY](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lokaalvindbaarnl/)
 * (@lokaalvindbaarnl)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/async-javascript-source/#post-6211143)
 * Line 652 thanks in advance…like this???
 *  echo “<script async type=’text/javascript’>” src=”‘ . $url . ‘”>’ . ($is_cache?‘/*
   Cache!*/’ : ”) . $error_message . ‘</script>’ . “\n”;
 *  if ($conditional) {
    echo “<![endif]–>” . “\n”; } }
 * Thank you,????
 * Michael
 *  [tech55541](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tech55541/)
 * (@tech55541)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/async-javascript-source/#post-6211152)
 * This is what i get when i try that.
    ` Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘
   src’ (T_STRING), expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /home2/ytadvise/public_html/wp-content/
   plugins/js-css-script-optimizer/js-css-script-optimizer.php on line 652
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