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1. austin-cheney ◴[] No.43902821[source]
When I was doing performance examinations from localhost I found that CSS was mostly inconsequential if written at least vaguely efficiently and requested as early as possible from the HTML. By completely removing CSS I might be able to save up to 7ms of load time, but that was extremely hard to tell because that was well within the variance between test intervals.

https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/performance...

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2. bawolff ◴[] No.43908229[source]
Obviously trying to do an optimization designed to reduce the impact of latency between client <-> server is going to have no impact if you are testing on localhost where latency is already effectively zero.

That's not to say i think this optimization is neccesarily worth it, just that testing on localhost is not a good test of this.