On 3 Feb, 06:16, "The Bicycling Guitarist"
<Ch...@TheBicyclingGuitarist.netwrote:
Yay. I ran a web site optimization test, and it informed me that even on
pages that didn't need them, the background images for other pages that are
on the style sheet are included as part of the file size being downloaded.
So what?
They'll be wanted pretty soon, when users nav to other pages. If they
only bother to read one page, screw them 8-)
Slowness in downloading them isn't an issue, other than possible
slowdown to the rest of your page. It doesn't matter if they haven't
loaded immediately, you couldn't see them anyway.
Think of it as "image pre-loading" instead. Back in the '90s, people
used to embed chunks of JavaScript on each page to achieve this!
Caching (between client and server) will take care of the rest. Let
the network layer worry about it.