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> We also need to think about number of round-trips. If you're on an old phone on a 3G connection in India, the extra round-trip from requesting the HTML then requesting the CSS makes a difference.

If your stylesheets are properly versioned, they can be cached forever, which means exactly the same number of requests as inline styles with much less bandwidth use.



Not on first load. The cache needs to be populated somehow.

I agree that it's a special case, but it's one we shouldn't just ignore.




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