[Sigia-l] boo.com/london

[Eric Scheid]

On 4/5/07 1:53 AM, "Dmitry Nekrasovski" <mail.dmitry at gmail.com> wrote:

> The IA is pretty messed up, and there are other things that mark this
> site as truly awesome in its cluelessness. The fact that the CSS is
> loaded from a separate server, for instance.

How is this clueless? Given that the html of a page may vary subject to
cookies, but the css probably wouldn't, it actually makes sense to offshore
the static resources to eliminate needless cookie exchanges .. which has an
impact on the cacheability of said resources. Same goes for the javascript
resources and image resources.

Yahoo put out a bug caching white paper at some point that explained this
concept (they use yimg.com, for example).

(Also, just because they are loaded from separate *domains*, they might
actually be still be the same servers)

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