Suggestions for more speed

[Marvin]

Quote:Base64 images - embedding them in the page is about 1/3 worse than the images as std, but don't forget the pages are then gzipped down the line - try the same test for IE7 to see it run with 8 separate images and the results - at least 2 seconds worse, see http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120305_AC_3FJT8/

Doc,

But that's not a fair comparison because IE7 is able to do only 2 parallel downloads per domain while "modern" browsers can do up to 6 of them. That's likely the (main?) reason for your worse test result using IE7.