将图像字符串直接嵌入我的HTML有多糟糕？

Question

Let's say I'm making some kind of PHP-based single-page image board that shows 100 small (<10kb) user-uploaded images. The oldest image is deleted from the server as soon as a new image is uploaded. Because the images come and go so rapidly I feel like there's not much of an advantage to caching them. It occurs to me that I could just embed the images as strings directly in the page's HTML, and that would also minimize the number of requests to my server. However, I feel like this must be a "bad thing". I'm wondering what input you knowledgeable folks have? Thank you!

Answer 1

It will be faster as much less connections are used. But you need to ask yourself if one particular user browsing through your site will see those images more than once, if yes than let the Web Server do the rest ( 304 response or similar )