Visiting 1 article then bouncing is the most common pattern for blogs by a long way. Also the amount of time taken to download a CSS file is usually much less

Visiting 1 article then bouncing is the most common pattern for blogs by a long way. Also the amount of time taken to download a CSS file is usually much less than the round trip time for requesting the file. Especially in the p90/p99 end of the latency distribution. Here in Australia, I can download a 10kb css file in less than 1ms. But simply requesting that CSS file from America will take 200ms. For a blog, inlining the css is absolutely the way to go. Especially if the css is small (which it should be!).