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By Luke Francl at Tue 10 Feb 14:31
One of the YSlow guidelines is based on improving page load time by moving JavaScript to the bottom of the page. Browsers can’t use progressive rendering while downloading JavaScript. Also, script downloads block parallel downloads of other content. If you put the JavaScript at the bottom of your page (right before </body> if possible).
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_bottom
If you haven’t already done this, it may help, too.