4 ms·

While I think you have some good points, the difference between 20504 and 21919 bytes is completely meaningless.

• jauco 18y ago
  It's brings it down to one request _and_ it reduces the filesize. Requests are relatively slow, you want as few as reasonable possible.
  • boucher 18y ago
    I tend to agree, and I didn't make any claims about the number of requests. But data transfer really isn't all that slow, and 1415 bytes only takes about 10 milliseconds on a dsl connection (and 100ms on dial up), which is insignificant compared to the other factors involved.
    • morbidkk 18y ago
      and you assume all who are accessing your web application from n number of places over the world have such fast internet access. I doubt