Re: Permit external JSON-LD files?

Good afternoon,


This is from StackOverflow. 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30864619/does-json-ld-have-to-be-embedded


<link href="/myid123/jsonld.js" rel="alternate" 
type="application/ld+json" />


Yours sincerely,
Hans Polak

On 27/8/22 19:17, Roger Rogerson wrote:
> I appreciate that things like MicroData are inlined,
> and utilise the HTML Markup to associate data with content.
>
> But JSON-LD Schema is embedded.
> In many cases, this additional code serves no "human" purpose,
> and is provided for "machines" (typically Google).
>
> A shining example is the following web page (remove spaces after periods):
> https://www. delish. com/cooking/g1956/best-cookies/
>
> That page has approximately 35Kb of Schema.
> That is loaded for every single human visitor.
>
> In the case of popular pages - this means a large amount of unnecessary
> code is transferred (Gigabytes or higher per year).
>
> If the JSON-LD could be externalised into a referred to file,
> then this could reduce bandwidth consumption for users,
> help speed up some page load times/improve performance
> and help towards "going green".
>
>
> I appreciate that technically,
> this isn't about "Schema" directly,
> but about how Browsers and Parsers can recognise and handle
> and externalised version - but I'm hoping this is the right place
> to get it considered and the right people to see it/push it to browser 
> vendors.
>
>
> Thank you.
> Autocrat.