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A lot of assets don't get substantially in the way of most of the page's functionality when they are slow to load.


The whole starting point of this discussion was limited 3G bandwidth. Anything going through that pipe is necessarily holding up other stuff from loading. Potentially important other stuff.


I'll grant that this makes it an argument against those things. I don't see that it's an equally strong argument. In any case, you have to weigh the costs and benefits.




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