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Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big

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jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Dec 30, 2008, 15:57 UTC
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>>>>> "AM" == Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> writes:

AM> For the specific case of repo.or.cz, I guess that turning on HTTP AM> compression might help a lot.

It's the billion bytes to the innocents' browser that huts the most. Bad to put such large homepages into browsers.

Previous: Anders Melchiorsen
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  1. jidanni@jidanni.orgDec 29, 2008
  2. J.H.Dec 29, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiDec 30, 2008
  4. Anders MelchiorsenDec 30, 2008
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