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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: avatars</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/avatars.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-07-11T15:12:45+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Return of the HTTP overhead delay</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/11/return/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-11T15:12:45+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-11T15:12:45+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/11/return/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=465"&gt;Return of the HTTP overhead delay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Christian proposes a neat way of improving page performance, by delaying non-essential images such as avatars until after the rest of the page has loaded.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/avatars"&gt;avatars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christian-heilmann"&gt;christian-heilmann&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http"&gt;http&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/images"&gt;images&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/onload"&gt;onload&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance"&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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