Thread: Loading the Google APIs associated with the Google Map to speed up page loads

Loading the Google APIs associated with the Google Map to speed up page loads

It appears that API's for Google Maps are slowing my site down (and probably yours too)

I hope that someone can help me with the implemention of a possible solution.

I seems that you can load the APIs by including the following script in the "header" of any web page.
(header.php)? ...obviously.

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>

and then load the Google API with google.load(module, version)

<script type="text/javascript">
google.load("search", "1");
google.load("jquery", "1.4.2");
google.load("jqueryui", "1.7.2");
</script>

to enhance the default loader functionality.

Has anyone tried this?
If so, where would the scripts above be placed in header.php....assuming that that's where they would actually go within Vantage.

To be honest, I'm pretty much shooting in the dark here.

Thanks