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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by Bnshsysjab on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:41PM (#24054785)
Is putting all assets into a single png/svg to reduce total requests a dead practice now?
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by tbarbugli on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:00PM (#24054948)
I guess http/2 support on CDN made this a useless (and tedious) optimization
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by Polylactic_acid on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:29PM (#24055615)
There was also the issue on an ancient version of IE that it could only load a few requests at the same time.
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by reaperducer on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:39PM (#24055274)
Is putting all assets into a single png/svg to reduce total requests a dead practice now?

As someone who browses the source of a lot of commercial web sites, I can say it's still dead common.

There's been a lot of static about new technologies coming that will make this unnecessary, but that don't help anyone today.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by gcpwnd on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:45PM (#24056072)
Should be done only if you have to load lots of small images. If you want to render above the fold fast reduceassets there and load them directly.
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