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Delete headers sent to the server from the browser

Problem and my question

I'm currently trying to optimize a page on my site that returns a large number of miniature javascript.

By optimizing, I mean acceleration :-)

One of the ways I'm trying to speed up this page is to reduce the headers sent to the server by the browser. 24 hours ago, I would not have thought it was possible, but since then I have discovered a page that does just that, and would like to know how and if it is worth exploring further.

My page is at https://libraries.sinemaculammviii.com/

The page I'm comparing to is https://www.google.com/jsapi

I used http://tools.pingdom.com to check the speed of both of these pages and one of the things that clearly shows is the lack of request headers sent by the Google page

How do they do it? Should I do this?

Does anyone have any other suggestions on how I can speed up this page?

I am currently using:

  • gzip for page compression
  • JSPacker to minimize javascript
  • I will apply caching headers ( I haven't done it yet )
  • Although this probably will not change the situation since the page is not static, I laid my site through the CloudFlare CDN

Proof of solution

If you compare the headers (shown in the expanded results) in the following links, you can clearly see that there are no request headers on the Google page:

My page

Google page

UPDATE 1

I think I may have figured out the first step, or at least the possible first step. Is it possible that Apache just removes the headers?

UPDATE 2

My page

Google's Page

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Google’s speed does not come from removing headers, although I’m sure it won’t hurt. True speed comes from its modification of the slow-start algorithm. For more information - here: http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat-on-slow.html

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