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Microsoft’s IIS used to skip a lot of protocol if you were using Internet Explorer. It made pages load a lot faster. Seems like Google is running the same hus
by CoolGuySteve 7y ago
Microsoft’s IIS used to skip a lot of protocol if you were using Internet Explorer. It made pages load a lot faster.
Seems like Google is running the same hustle.
- zo1 7y agoI think so... Could be anything from hidden JS optimizations, SPDY, server-throttling. Last time I looked, my anecdotal and probably biased investigation into it appeared to indicate that the actual requests were slower on Firefox. Nevermind the question of why Gmail needs to make 230+ requests to the server to start up.