Performance: Absolute vs. Relative URLs

Question

What\'s faster? Hot linking (inline linking) to an absolute URI or hosting the resource yourself and using a relative URI?

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Answer 1

The time the client needs to resolve the relative URI is absolutely negligible.

So it doesn’t make any difference whether you link to a resource in the same domain of the document using absolute or relative URIs.

The only difference will be when the resource is hosted on a different server. Then you’ll need an additional TCP connection to that server whereas an additional HTTP request to a server that you already have a connection to could use that connection.