Note that HTTP content-encoding does not compress headers, so gzip compression will have no effect on responses with status 304 (or on request headers). Your o

Note that HTTP content-encoding does not compress headers, so gzip compression will have no effect on responses with status 304 (or on request headers). Your other points are good ones, which is why I said that bundling beats pipelining in some ways. Obviously you should measure your real-world use cases and performance before deciding.