Benefits of omitting closing body and html tags?

Question

Are there any benefits to omitting the closing body and html tags?

Why is the google.com homepage missing the closing body and html tags?

• edit - wit

Answer 1

You're thinking of that as a standalone thing. If they've done several different things that save bandwidth then it all adds up. Each one might not be significant on it's own but if they have 5 or 10 optimisations then it's significant in total.

Also, those ten bytes may well reduce the data size enough to make it take one less TCP/IP packet which will have significantly higher savings that simply reducing the size of one.