To expand on @Bojangels comment: you better load React into the script tag immediately before the close </body> as follows:
<html> <head> <title>This is my app!</title> </head> <body> <script src="https://fb.me/react-0.13.3.min.js"></script> </body> </html>
Put the script at the end so that the rest of the html and CSS rules are displayed before the script tag is reached and react-0.13.3.min.js is loaded.
Also, as already mentioned, you can add the defer attribute to the script tag like this:
<script src="https://fb.me/react-0.13.3.min.js" defer="true"></script>
By adding the defer attribute, you should do the following (source: mdn ):
This Boolean attribute is set to indicate to the browser that the script is intended to be executed after the document has been parsed.
How much is your second question about whether page load speed affects google search rankings, Moz (SEO) wrote a post about page speed and ranking and conclusion:
Our data shows that there is no correlation between "page load time" (full or full), as well as ranking on the Google search results page.
Pavan Ravipati
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