---
title: "async vs defer attributes in Javascript"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/async-vs-defer-attributes-in-javascript-dbgczdmq2
source_url: https://vinitraut.tech/async-vs-defer-attributes-in-javascript
type: article
source: "Hashnode"
published: 2020-09-24T05:18:52.411Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["javascript", "html"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 16
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# async vs defer attributes in Javascript

**[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · 4 min read · 16 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Introduction
A script tag is used to load javascript inside a web browser. async and defer are the boolean attributes used along with the script tag to load the external scripts efficiently into the web page. In this article, we will cover the follow...

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