# third-party

Walks you through cutting the performance cost of third-party scripts without dropping analytics, ads or widgets.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1500 installs · ★ 257
- Author: patterns.dev
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/PatternsDev/skills/tree/HEAD/javascript/third-party/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-04-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/third-party

## What it does

The skill explains why outside resources drag a page down: extra round trips to another domain, heavy JavaScript, render blocking. From there it gives you two moves — drop the script if its value does not match the cost, or rework the loading order. The instructions cover `async` and `defer` for non-critical scripts, `preconnect` and `dns-prefetch` hints, lazy-loading below-the-fold embeds with IntersectionObserver or facades, self-hosting critical scripts, and the Next.js Script component with its `strategy` values.

To find the culprit, it points at Lighthouse audits, the WebPageTest waterfall and bundle size checks. Handy when your metrics slipped and the cause is not obvious. One caveat: `async` and `defer` lower the priority the browser assigns, so a script can land much later — worth checking before you lose early analytics data.

The skill targets `**/*.js` and `**/*.ts` files and uses Read, Grep and Glob. Install runs through `npx skills add` with an agent flag; GitHub Copilot uses `gh skill install` instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PatternsDev/skills --skill third-party -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/third-party/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/third-party/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PatternsDev/skills --skill third-party -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/third-party/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PatternsDev/skills --skill third-party -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/third-party/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install PatternsDev/skills third-party
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/third-party/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PatternsDev/skills --skill third-party -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/PatternsDev/skills --path javascript/third-party
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/third-party/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PatternsDev/skills --skill third-party -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/PatternsDev/skills/tree/HEAD/javascript/third-party/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- stop third-party scripts from blocking rendering
- size up a vendor script and its dependencies
- defer chat widgets and maps until the user scrolls
- set up an early connection to your analytics domain
- decide between removing a script and reordering the load

## Example prompts
- check which third-party scripts block rendering on this page
- show me how to defer the chat widget and the map until scroll
- move our analytics tags to defer without losing early page-load data

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: third-party
description: Teaches strategies for mitigating third-party script performance impact. Use when third-party scripts like analytics, ads, or widgets are degrading your page load times or Core Web Vitals.
context: fork
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob
paths:
  - "**/*.js"
  - "**/*.ts"
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: patterns.dev
  version: "1.1"
related_skills:
  - "module-pattern"
  - "singleton-pattern"
---

# Optimize loading third-parties

## Table of Contents

- [When to Use](#when-to-use)
- [Instructions](#instructions)
- [Details](#details)
- [Source](#source)

## When to Use

- Use this when third-party scripts (analytics, ads, chat widgets, social embeds) are slowing down your site
- This is helpful for optimizing Core Web Vitals while retaining essential third-party functionality

## Instructions

- Use `async` or `defer` attributes for non-critical third-party scripts
- Establish early connections with `preconnect` and `dns-prefetch` resource hints
- Lazy-load below-the-fold embeds (YouTube, maps, social media) using IntersectionObserver or facades
- Consider self-hosting critical third-party scripts for better caching control
- Use the Next.js Script component with appropriate `strategy` values for framework-level optimization

## Details

It would be hard to find a modern site that operates in silos. Most sites coexist and depend on several other sources on the web for data, functions, content, and much more. Any resource located on another domain and consumed by your site is a third-party (3P) resource for your site. Typical third-party resources that are included on sites include:

- Embeds for maps, videos, social media, and chat services
- Advertisements
- Analytics components and tag managers
- A/B testing and personalization scripts
- Utility libraries that provide ready-to-use helper functions such as those used for data visualization or animations.
- [reCAPTCHA](https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/) or CAPTCHA for bot detection.

You can use third-parties to integrate other features that add value to your content or to reduce some drudgery involved in building a site from scratch. As per the Web Almanac report for 2021, more than [94% of the pages](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2021/third-parties#prevalence) on the web use third-parties - [images and JavaScript](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2020/third-parties#content-types) forming the most significant contributors to third-party content.

While third-party resources can enrich your site with valuable features, they can also slow it down if:

- They cause additional round trips to the third-party domain for every required resource.
- They make heavy usage of JavaScript (impacting download and execution time) or are bulky in size because of unoptimized images/videos.
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