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If your output is compressed (which it should be if you're worried about response size) then omitting end tags has much less impact, I believe. All of the tags
by DougWebb 10y ago
If your output is compressed (which it should be if you're worried about response size) then omitting end tags has much less impact, I believe. All of the tags should get compressed well because they're repeated so often, and they should be much smaller overall than your non-repetitive content.
- TheRealPomax 10y agoBut note that on the scale of move as much data around as Google does, or even "the web as a whole", shaving even a few bytes off of every single gzip packet stream can still equate to significant network relief.
- DougWebb 10y agoI suspect their advice is for their benefit, not other website devs. They can save a lot of space in their archive if everyone's pages were smaller. Nothing compared to better image compression though.
- dgacmu 10y agoNo - a few bytes on a web page are insignificant compared to the data volume of images and movies. This is all about getting pages to load faster on mobile.
- nevir 10y agoIf those extra bytes drop you from two packets to one, that's a _significant_ reduction in traffic (which, IIRC, was the original rationale behind that style guide rule)