For small datasets[1], latency may dominate bitrate. So it may be advantageous to receive everything with a single request and a single response. Also, if your

For small datasets[1], latency may dominate bitrate. So it may be advantageous to receive everything with a single request and a single response. Also, if your blog doesn't change often, it will also be seldom visited[2]. So the browser cache may not help here - either due to cache invalidation, or because you changed a tiny bit of your CSS in the meantime. [1] And honestly, from that perspective all blogs are small. [2] Ideally, all your readers use Atom/RSS.