No, I already replied to him. You and him should spend some time looking at the Chrome network console visiting some of the top500 sites. It is very common for sites to be exactly like that: tons of small requests for small resources.
Great, I appreciate you recognize this.
> Why include tons of small resources on your page if they're not necessary?
But it _is_ necessary. In every single of the examples I gave in my reply to dlubarov, it is necessary:
- There are 100+ small images, icons, etc and all are displayed on the nytimes.com homepage.
- All of the thumbnail pictures of ebay items on a listing are displayed to the user.
- The 50+ maps tiles downloaded when browsing Google Maps are all necessary.
- Etc
You seem to fail to realize that in 2015, not every web page can be dumbed down to a blob of static HTML and no more than 2-3 images. The modern web is complex. We needed a protocol that can serve it efficiently.