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> We also need to think about number of round-trips. If you're on an old phone on a 3G connection in India, the extra round-trip from requesting the HTML then r
by yid 11y ago
> We also need to think about number of round-trips. If you're on an old phone on a 3G connection in India, the extra round-trip from requesting the HTML then requesting the CSS makes a difference.
If your stylesheets are properly versioned, they can be cached forever, which means exactly the same number of requests as inline styles with much less bandwidth use.
- matchu 11y agoNot on first load. The cache needs to be populated somehow. I agree that it's a special case, but it's one we shouldn't just ignore.