This is mostly nonsense, you can easily check for yourself. Load up the OP's page with Chrome dev tools network tab open. Connection start: 90ms (60ms of whic

This is mostly nonsense, you can easily check for yourself. Load up the OP's page with Chrome dev tools network tab open. Connection start: 90ms (60ms of which is SSL handshake) Request/Response: 30ms request / 30ms response So the whole post is about yak shaving not splitting the 30ms response portion of a request that already takes 5x that (150+ms). Sure it's a bit faster, but your users will not notice the difference between a 14kb page and a 15kb page over https (which you hopefully have on).