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by dspillett 837 days ago
Maybe.

Though from the client side 60 bytes is likely not really noticeable¹ as a delay in the request send. Perhaps server side, which is seen many many client requests, will see an uptick in incoming bandwidth used, but in most cases servers responding to HTTP(S) requests see a lot more outgoing traffic (response sizes are much larger than requests sizes, on average), so have enough incoming bandwidth “spare” that it is not going to be saturated to the point where this has a significant effect.

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[1] if the link is slow enough that several lots of 60 bytes is going to have much effect² it likely also has such high latency that the difference is dwarfed by the existing delays.

[2] a spotty GRPS connection? is anything slower than that in common use anywhere?