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		ck2 on Feb 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SPDY Brings Responsive and Scalable Transport to F... Why are you loading every single asset on a page that cannot be seen entirely on the screen? Or for a few scrolls? Why are you loading asssets for the footer when only above the fold is seen on initial page load? In your floppy comparison, that would be like copying over an entire 16GB SD card just to view a few pictures you took this morning.

wmf on Feb 4, 2012 [–]

HTML is a declarative format, so the presence of an <img> tag doesn't mean it has to be loaded eagerly. You could turn it around and ask why the browser is loading assets that can't be seen.

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