If you rely on external content to be already loaded (e.g. images, fonts), you need to use the window.load event
$(window).on("load", function() {
// code here
});
The behaviour of these events is described in this article:
There is [a] ready-state however known as DOM-ready. This is when the browser has actually constructed the page but still may need to grab a few images or flash files.
Edit: changed syntax to also work with jQuery 3.0, as noted by Alex H