Keep Cookies Small

Your cookie is sent back to your server every single time the user makes a request for anything. Even with Images, JS, CSS requests or AJAX the cookie is sent. A typical HTTP request will have between 500-1000 bytes. Now, if you have 4 cookies each with names like "user_name" followed by a value with 30 characters, you are adding 15-30% more bytes to the request.


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