You raise an interesting point about the performance hit from using cookies. From YUI's results it seems that only cookies larger 500 bytes really slow down the response time. Surely the increase in performance from page caching would outweigh the effect of slightly larger cookies. Though I agree that the increased complexity would be nice to avoid.
You raise an interesting point about the performance hit from using cookies. From YUI's results it seems that only cookies larger 500 bytes really slow down the response time. Surely the increase in performance from page caching would outweigh the effect of slightly larger cookies. Though I agree that the increased complexity would be nice to avoid.