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Interestingly if you view the page source you will notice there are 2830 characters of whitespace before the DTD. There are lots of weird tabs in there... It looks like the tabs are for some sort of server-side code that is being parsed/removed but the whitespace is being left in the rendered document.

That might seem like a small issue, but imagine how much traffic their site gets. ~2.8Kb of wasted bandwidth for every request...



Reminds me of old-school FrontPage sites.


Yeah, in this case the page is rendered by ColdFusion. Which i'm guessing is the root of the issue!


Well it may be gzipped...




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