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Text based web browsers download#
I don't believe that text-based browsers will (by default) even download resources such as images or external entities, such as fonts (if needed), scripts, etc. 1×1 px corrupted GIF file that appears twice (34 B / 23 B).1×1 px transparent GIF (62 B / 43 B) which shows up in Chrome Dev Tools Resources tab, but I couldn't find it in the source - probably added later with JavaScript.There are few such images on : ( base64 encoded size / decoded size) They are very small, though, otherwise the overhead of encoding binary file in base64 is too big. This is another trick used to reduce number of requests. so they download less makes a good point in comments: Sometimes small images are embedded directly in HTML documents and in those cases downloading them cannot be avoided. Text-based browsers don't download images, Flash files, HTML5 video etc. (actual files may be different for different users, browsers and sessions and may change over time)
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(some combined images, trick used to reduce number of browser requests).In our Google example the browser will find following references, just to name a few of them:
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Then the browser downloads referenced documents one by one, each time asking the server explicitly for a single resource. If you have an ad blocker (like Adblock) or privacy plugin (Ghostery, NoScript), it may block some resources too. Regular browsers will try to download all referenced documents for best viewing experience. In this case it's HTML webpage, so it parses the document and looks for referenced scripts, stylesheets, images, fonts etc.Īt this stage the browser has finished downloading that document, but still doesn't have downloaded referenced documents. Then the browser checks what the server has sent. The server processess the request and sends back some HTML code. Web server doesn't send "entire website", but documents that browsers request.įor example when you access the browser queries server for the document.