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Topic: Difference in efficiency between absolute and relative paths |
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bazianm
Joined: 01 Jul 2014 Posts: 11 Location: Passaic, NJ
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Posted: Tue 20 Feb '18 17:11 Post subject: Difference in efficiency between absolute and relative paths |
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Hi,
I am curious. If I am embedding an image in a page, is there a difference in efficiency between
<img src="http://www.mydomain.com/path/to/image.jpg">
and
<img src="/path/to/image.jpg">?
Same for js, css and other files... |
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James Blond Moderator
Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 7360 Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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Posted: Wed 21 Feb '18 13:27 Post subject: |
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There is no difference. Except when you run your page over SSL you have mixed content since you call the media from http://
The best method I think is to use absolute paths without domain name. |
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gijs
Joined: 27 Apr 2012 Posts: 189 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Fri 23 Feb '18 14:28 Post subject: |
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Well, the less characters you have to send over the line the less bandwidth you use.
So a shorter (relative) URL's will save you a tiny bit of bandwidth. Making it marginally more efficient.
However you probably won't notice this difference. |
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