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Asked: 2026-05-12T11:39:04+00:00

Let’s say there is a page with 100 different user photo’s shown on the

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Let’s say there is a page with 100 different user photo’s shown on the page,
that is at least 100 DNS lookups right there, would this be reduced if I were to link using the an IP instead of a domain url?

http://217.345.33.444/images/photo.jpg instead of http://domain.com/images/photo.jpg

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  1. Editorial Team

    DNS lookups are cached by your computer, so there will only be a single lookup per unique domain.

    Additionally, most people use their internet provider’s DNS server, and it will typically cache DNS lookups as well, so a lot of the time, the DNS lookup will just be a single network hop away.

    You have no way of knowing when the IP address of a domain will change, so I do not recommend this approach.

    Is there a reason you don’t store the images on your own domain? If you did that:

    • the DNS issue would go away.
    • A lot of web servers don’t allow hot linking of images, so this problem would be solved as well.
    • that would also create the possibility of spriting images together, if the set of images shown together doesn’t change often.
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