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Somewhat related, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that browsers treat assets with different URL casing as different assets for purposes of caching. Three image elements that reference Foo.jpg, foo,jpg, and foo.JPG all require a separate request and space in the cache, even if the web server you're using is case-insensitive and all three URLs resolve to the same image.



I always add:

    CheckSpelling off
To my dev (but not production) server so that I catch things like that. This won't help with a case insensitive web server though.




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