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On the other other hand, it takes 83 bytes of HTML to represent the image tag which requests that 100 bytes of image. It only takes a couple of bytes to represe
by garethadams 14y ago
On the other other hand, it takes 83 bytes of HTML to represent the image tag which requests that 100 bytes of image. It only takes a couple of bytes to represent the Unicode character.
- masklinn 14y agoSure, that's a valid point. However considering the HN home page is sent as raw HTML right now, there'd be much better savings by enabling gzip, reducing the home page's over-the-wire size from ~22k to ~5k. Compared to ~2.5k (from 22k to 20k) of savings from removing all 30 instances of the image tag.