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chris_cast
October 16, 2015
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Can DTM concatenate and/or minify scripts?

  • October 16, 2015
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Currently, if I have a rule with 3 third party scripts, DTM will load each script individually onto the page with separate requests. Is there a way to tell DTM to combine them?

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    Best answer by ParitMittal

    Hi Chris / Todd,

    It basically depends on the Type of Javascript / Third party tags you wish to combine.Please find below some points on the same.

    1. Its not possible to combine Javascript / Third party tags from different vendors i.e. Fire a single image request for both the vendors.

    2. For combining Javascript / Thirdparty tags from same vendor , you need to contact your vendor to device the mechanism for combining multiple tags.

    3. For Adobe Analytics, Do not write a separate call s.t() for each Javascript code , Page load rule condition i.e. Top of the page , bottom of the page etc. will itself take care of that.

    Please let us know if you have any further queries for the same.

    Thanks & Regards 

    Parit Mittal

    4 replies

    Rudi_Shumpert
    Adobe Employee
    Rudi_ShumpertAdobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    October 16, 2015

    Chris,

    It depends on the types of scripts.  Which ones are you trying to combine?

    -Rudi

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    tcoleman
    December 28, 2015

    I am also wanting to know this.  I have a Page Load Rule that has 5 separate "Javascript / Third Party Tags".  They are all Sequential Javascript scripts.  When I check the network calls in Chrome, I see a separate satellite-[guid].js call for each.  Any way those could all be combined / minified into a single call?  I thought maybe it was just a staging thing, but I checked the live site and they are separate calls there as well.

    ParitMittal
    ParitMittalAccepted solution
    Level 10
    December 28, 2015

    Hi Chris / Todd,

    It basically depends on the Type of Javascript / Third party tags you wish to combine.Please find below some points on the same.

    1. Its not possible to combine Javascript / Third party tags from different vendors i.e. Fire a single image request for both the vendors.

    2. For combining Javascript / Thirdparty tags from same vendor , you need to contact your vendor to device the mechanism for combining multiple tags.

    3. For Adobe Analytics, Do not write a separate call s.t() for each Javascript code , Page load rule condition i.e. Top of the page , bottom of the page etc. will itself take care of that.

    Please let us know if you have any further queries for the same.

    Thanks & Regards 

    Parit Mittal

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      tcoleman
      January 11, 2016

      ParitMittal wrote...

      Hi Chris / Todd,

      It basically depends on the Type of Javascript / Third party tags you wish to combine.Please find below some points on the same.

      1. Its not possible to combine Javascript / Third party tags from different vendors i.e. Fire a single image request for both the vendors.

      2. For combining Javascript / Thirdparty tags from same vendor , you need to contact your vendor to device the mechanism for combining multiple tags.

      3. For Adobe Analytics, Do not write a separate call s.t() for each Javascript code , Page load rule condition i.e. Top of the page , bottom of the page etc. will itself take care of that.

      Please let us know if you have any further queries for the same.

      Thanks & Regards 

      Parit Mittal

       

      Parit, so I have a Page Load Rule that is not tied to anything except code.  See shot here: http://screencast.com/t/WdYDsFIheTnv  It is not associated to Analytics or anything else. Also, it triggers at Bottom of Page: http://screencast.com/t/TFT6bgc23

      Inside that rule, I only have custom scripts created.  You can see them here: http://screencast.com/t/bngD0lVA  They are just general javascript that use _satellite.  Nothing complicated.

      Finally, in the webpage networking on chrome, I see them all getting included separately.  http://screencast.com/t/LPU1lfQgZq

      Now, you can see from my Page Load Rule, that I like to have all my scripts named as that makes maintenance a ton easier than trying to find something in one huge js script file.  However, I can't have hundreds of separate files included at run-time...

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