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Re:Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62% by dataflow on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:24PM (#17545687)
This is weird. In Chrome incognito, I get ~400 requests (without scrolling), and in Firefox private browsing, I get ~120 requests before scrolling, and ~190 after. What in the world? I disabled all the extensions in Firefox too.
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Re:Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62% by detaro on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:25PM (#17545694)
Doesn't Firefox private browsing has a tracking blocklist active by default?
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Re:Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62% by mehrdadn on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:27PM (#17545710)
Wow, I didn't know that! I thought the tracking protection was just about the DNT header and I didn't expect that to make much difference here. However, even disabling that, I only get ~200 requests. There's still a lot missing... is it still blocking things under the hood?
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Re:Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62% by RugnirViking on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:29AM (#17548423)
It may also be that different resources are loaded based on browser agent to track the user in different ways/display the page correctly on different browsers/polyfill javascript differences
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Re:Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62% by MR4D on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:58PM (#17552147)
I just re-ran it in Chrome ingongito mode to get the following:

  - 400 requests (adds about 1 per second after that)
  - 6.8 MB transferred
  - 6.1 seconds
Then I ran it AGAIN, and got this:

  - 307 requests
  - 4.6 MB
  - 9.03 seconds
You're right - it is WEIRD!
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