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by strooper 1837 days ago
I wonder if the experience improves by using proxy browsers, such as- Opera (lite/mini).
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I doubt it since most websites have moved to using geo-distributed CDNs and sometimes app servers anyways.
I am pretty sure it would, and that is one of the reasons Opera Mini is still very popular in Africa.

One of the things it does is to remove the need for hundreds of requests to fetch every single image/script in the page (from the client that is). Instead it is only one file to fetch over http. Only that makes a huge difference.