https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19382
--- Comment #11 from Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry <[email protected]> 2009-06-25 13:36:39 UTC --- If only! But unfortunately TCP/IP does not work like that, thanks to slow-start, ACKs, and other mechanisms designed for a less reliable, slower age. Check out the sites in comment #3, or grab a copy of Wireshark (http://www.wireshark.org/) and see for yourself. Bytes saved in the head are especially precious because they have to be downloaded and processed before the browser can start to display the rest of the page. Many visitors - we're probably talking from 20-50% - come to Wikipedia and other wikis with a clean cache, so having to download the JS and CSS before they can see the page . . . and they can't start on *that* until the <head> has arrived. There should be a strong justification for every element there - _and_ for any whitespace in-between them, which gzip cannot always eliminate. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
