> inlined the stylesheet (there is a cache penalty here so you have to trim it down as much as possible but the page starts rendering immediately which is a hug

> inlined the stylesheet (there is a cache penalty here so you have to trim it down as much as possible but the page starts rendering immediately which is a huge gain at the cost of a little bit of extra data transferred) I guess you're optimizing for people who only visit one page and bounce away? Well, come to think of it, the majority of visitors who followed this HN link is never going to navigate past the single page that was linked. So it probably makes sense for optimize for them, at the expense of repeat visitors who will have to download the stylesheet over and over again.