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0 pointscodegladiator5y ago0 comments

I did read the article that's I picked to sentences from there. I did not pick up from the article that chrome counts inline data as requests and I did not know that earlier.

I find that even more odd that inline data is counted as requests.

edit: stand corrected, thanks for pointing out

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toddgardner5y ago

> Important: It’s worth noting that each one of these Base64 encoded images is counted as a “request” in the Network tab of Chrome developer tools. This explains why there are so many images “requested” but the page is so fast. The browser never goes over the network to get them!

michaelbuckbee5y ago

I paused at that as well, maybe it makes sense to think of it as a "request for additional execution" where it happens to be to Base64decode the data URI or pull the image from a remote server.

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