A great way to save bandwidth is to take advantage of Google’s AJAX Libraries API to serve your favorite open-source JavaScript libraries.

For a Joomla user, Joomla import mootools.js automatically. Mootools.js is more than 70KB, If we host the mootools.js in Google, then how much bandwidth it will save?

For example, it will replace
“/media/system/js/mootools.js”
with
“http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.11/mootools-yui-compressed.js”

or
“http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.21/mootools-yui-compressed.js”

It depends the version you have set. The mootools version must host on Google’s Ajax libraries.

The Joomla Plugin Google Ajax Library will automatically replace your local ajax libraries with Google’s AJAX libraries.

Support Ajax libraries:

1. Mootools
2. Prototype
3. JQuery
4. YUI
5. SWFObject

Benefits of the using Joomla Plugin: GoogleAjaxLib

* Save bandwidth.
* Speed up your site’s response.
* Service more online users.

V1.1 Use system plugin to give a big short replace.
V1.2 AddSWFObject

You can download this Joomla extension simply following this link.

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