[jacquesm]

> It's really just one request if I'm not mistaken.

You're correct.

> The two data requests are actually references to images embedded in the HTML.

Yep.

> A bit of an aggrevating question but if you look at the site, why should it be more than 1 request?

100% agree with that. The problem is that most pages that are just 'text without any obvious images' clock in tens of requests and easily a megabyte+.

Before I finally found the time to switch blogging platforms this one was no different and it aggravated me no end that something that simple should require 600K of data and 18 requests. The new one (which was quite a bit of work to put together, it took more work to send less data) is much better in that sense.