I find irony in the fact that this page purports to preach about web optimization, yet its text doesn't even display properly on Chrome.
(The larger blue font content is utterly misplaced and unreadable)
most websites don't work over my Mom's dialup. I quite commonly find pages that load a hundred different URLs, commonly they are single-pixel transparent gifs as well as one byte of javascript whitespace, but both with huge long lists of guery parameters.