Topic: Difference in efficiency between absolute and relative paths

[bazianm]

Hi,

I am curious. If I am embedding an image in a page, is there a difference in efficiency between

<img src="http://www.mydomain.com/path/to/image.jpg">

and

<img src="/path/to/image.jpg">?

Same for js, css and other files...

[James Blond]

There is no difference. Except when you run your page over SSL you have mixed content since you call the media from http://

The best method I think is to use absolute paths without domain name.

[gijs]

Well, the less characters you have to send over the line the less bandwidth you use.

So a shorter (relative) URL's will save you a tiny bit of bandwidth. Making it marginally more efficient.
However you probably won't notice this difference.