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Asked: 2026-05-15T11:10:11+00:00

Would it make sense to improve pageload speed by serving smaller images from the

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Would it make sense to improve pageload speed by serving smaller images from the database rather than make multiple HTTP requests given that the website is PHP driven?

I’m thinking of smaller page design elements, buttons, thumbnails for galleries etc.

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  1. Editorial Team

    No. Since:

    • A browser only communicates with the server via HTTP so you would have to pull them from a database, put them in HTTP, then return them to the browser
    • It is more expensive to pull large chunks of binary data from a database then it is to pull them from the filesystem.

    If you want to make fewer HTTP requests, you can sprite the images, but don’t do that with content images (which should have proper <img> elements with alt text).

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