Chunked Transfer Encoding vs Content-Length

[p83822]

According to the last post, I haven't said very much, but:

http://www.webpagetest.org/forums/showth...?tid=10748

One thing to note up front. The browser will kick off the css before the whole html is received (which on FIOS is near instantaneous of course). I ran a 56k test to illustrate this. (http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120712...1/details/) Notice that the css is requested before the html has finished downloading.

That's just an aside. Chunking can be enormously beneficial - when coupled with careful flushing. Stoyan (as usual) writes this up beautifully:

http://www.phpied.com/progressive-render...e-flushes/

This might significantly reduce the TTFB (but that is only 100-150ms)