diff --git a/Packages/Infrastructure/Sources/Public/Protocols/Page.swift b/Packages/Infrastructure/Sources/Public/Protocols/Page.swift
index e925ac3..5f71622 100644
--- a/Packages/Infrastructure/Sources/Public/Protocols/Page.swift
+++ b/Packages/Infrastructure/Sources/Public/Protocols/Page.swift
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import Foundation
 ///
 /// A conforming page supplies its locale, its title, the stylesheets and scripts it needs, its head metadata, and its content; the protocol assembles the
 /// rest of the document around them: the viewport declaration, the summary, canonical, and social card tags, the structured data script, the analytics
-/// tracker script, and the metadata followed by the stylesheet links in the head, and the content followed by the script tags in the body.
+/// tracker script, and the metadata followed by the stylesheet links and the deferred script tags in the head, and the content as the body.
 public protocol Page: HTMLDocument, Sendable {
 
     // MARK: Associated types
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ public protocol Page: HTMLDocument, Sendable {
     /// The canonical URL the page is served at, rendered as a `link rel="canonical"` tag in the document head, or `nil` (the default) to omit the tag.
     var canonicalURL: String? { get }
 
-    /// The page's markup, rendered before the ``scripts``.
+    /// The page's markup, rendered as the document body.
     @HTMLBuilder
     var content: Content { get }
 
@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ public protocol Page: HTMLDocument, Sendable {
     @HTMLBuilder
     var metadata: Metadata { get }
 
-    /// The scripts loaded at the end of the document body, in order.
+    /// The scripts loaded from the document head, in order.
+    ///
+    /// Rendered as `defer`red tags: the downloads start while the head is parsed, and the scripts still execute in order only after the
+    /// document is fully parsed — the same semantics end-of-body tags would give, minus the late download start.
     var scripts: [any Asset] { get }
 
     /// The card controlling the page's link previews, rendered as Open Graph and Twitter meta tags in the document head, or `nil` (the default)
@@ -67,21 +70,15 @@ public extension Page {
         nil
     }
     
-    /// The page ``content`` followed by its ``scripts``.
+    /// The page ``content``; the ``scripts`` load deferred from the ``head``.
     @HTMLBuilder
     var body: some HTML {
         content
-        
-        for file in scripts {
-            script(.src(file.urlPath(
-                for: .js,
-                version: assetVersion
-            ))) {}
-        }
     }
     
     /// The viewport declaration, the ``summary``, ``canonicalURL``, and ``socialCard`` tags, the ``structuredData`` script and the
-    /// ``analytics`` tracker script (when provided), and the ``metadata`` followed by the ``stylesheets`` links, placed in the document head.
+    /// ``analytics`` tracker script (when provided), and the ``metadata`` followed by the ``stylesheets`` links and the deferred
+    /// ``scripts`` tags, placed in the document head.
     ///
     /// The charset declaration is omitted: Elementary's `HTMLDocument` scaffolding already emits `<meta charset="UTF-8">` before this markup,
     /// and HTML5 allows only one.
@@ -155,6 +152,16 @@ public extension Page {
                 ))
             )
         }
+
+        for file in scripts {
+            script(
+                .defer,
+                .src(file.urlPath(
+                    for: .js,
+                    version: assetVersion
+                ))
+            ) {}
+        }
     }
     
     /// The analytics tracker is omitted unless the page provides one.
diff --git a/Packages/Infrastructure/Tests/Cases/Public/Protocols/PageTests.swift b/Packages/Infrastructure/Tests/Cases/Public/Protocols/PageTests.swift
index 2540ec2..38787fa 100644
--- a/Packages/Infrastructure/Tests/Cases/Public/Protocols/PageTests.swift
+++ b/Packages/Infrastructure/Tests/Cases/Public/Protocols/PageTests.swift
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ struct PageTests {
         #expect(html.contains(#"name="viewport""#))
         #expect(html.contains(#"<meta name="stub" content="marker">"#))
         #expect(html.contains(#"<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/stub.css">"#))
-        #expect(html.contains(#"<script src="/js/stub.js"></script>"#))
+        #expect(html.contains(#"<script defer src="/js/stub.js"></script>"#))
         #expect(html.contains("Stub content"))
     }
 
@@ -38,13 +38,17 @@ struct PageTests {
     }
 
     @Test
-    func `renders the scripts after the content`() throws {
+    func `renders the scripts deferred in the head, after the stylesheets`() throws {
         let html = StubPage().render()
 
-        let content = try #require(html.range(of: "Stub content"))
+        let stylesheet = try #require(html.range(of: "/css/stub.css"))
         let script = try #require(html.range(of: "/js/stub.js"))
+        let content = try #require(html.range(of: "Stub content"))
 
-        #expect(content.lowerBound < script.lowerBound)
+        // Deferred head scripts start downloading during head parsing but still execute, in order, only after the
+        // document is parsed — the semantics end-of-body tags gave, minus the late download start.
+        #expect(stylesheet.lowerBound < script.lowerBound)
+        #expect(script.lowerBound < content.lowerBound)
     }
 
     @Test