The net effect is much larger than the smallish overall effect appears to be. The request is much smaller and this has a surprisingly large effect because moder

The net effect is much larger than the smallish overall effect appears to be. The request is much smaller and this has a surprisingly large effect because modern consumer connections are asymmetrical as much as 20/1. Those requests take 5-20 times as long per byte to send over the wire. Shrinking them this much decreases total request -> response time a lot more than it looks