Originally Posted by
Westech
I think that one of the main reasons Google isn't standards compliant is to save bandwidth. The smaller they can get their file sizes the better. For instance, every time they use <br> instead of <br /> they are saving two bytes. Notice that they also use hardly any newlines (carriage returns.) Each carriage return wastes a byte of space as well. For most of us, a tiny savings per page like this wouldn't matter, but for someone with the traffic that Google has it matters a lot. Say they save 20-50 bytes per page by doing this and then multiply that out by however many millions of pageviews Google gets every day and it adds up to quite a bit of savings.
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