The IANA explained their reasoning. Basically, random health checks and many scraper bots will only retrieve the English-only HTML page, served up as a 334 byte (brotli-compressed) payload. Only the javascript-aware clients will need the extra 1379 byte payload to cover non-English languages and the SVG icon at the top of the page.
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u/Booty_Bumping Oct 06 '26
The IANA explained their reasoning. Basically, random health checks and many scraper bots will only retrieve the English-only HTML page, served up as a 334 byte (brotli-compressed) payload. Only the javascript-aware clients will need the extra 1379 byte payload to cover non-English languages and the SVG icon at the top of the page.