test objects design

study done by W3C in June of 1997 on using HTML, CSS1 and PNG and speeding downloads. Very interesting findings as in “Replacing images with CSS reduces the number of separate resources referenced, and therefore reduces the protocol requests and possible name resolutions required to retrieve them.” AND “…the number of bytes needed to represent the content is reduced by a factor of MORE THAN 4, even before any transport compression is applied. Second, there is no need to fetch the external image, and since HTML and CSS can coexist in the same file one HTTP request is saved. ”

Now you know why the pages load so slow on the websites you visit. More evidence for Browser Upgrade Initiative.