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Developers spend lot of time optimizing performance of web servers. There are many good reasons for doing this, such as fewer servers in a data center and lower probability of overloading those servers. However, the benefits of web server optimization are often negligible for the user experience. Surprisingly, it might take as little as 10% of the total page load time to download the HTML document that is generated on the fly by the web servers.... more »

If you have a personal navigation device (aka GPS) that shows the current speed you may have noticed that it rather consistently shows speed that is lower than the speed on the speed meter.... more »