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Re:The Cost of Poor Web Performance by aestra on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:45AM (#7069613)
I was under the impression part of that is because of how Opera Mobile worked, they have some kinda "Turbo" mode that compressed websites and reduced downloading times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mobile

Re:The Cost of Poor Web Performance by dredmorbius on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:08AM (#7070130)
Including caching of optimized content.

Which played hell with the localization logic for many sites.