There could also be static content (known ads, backgrounds, scripts, etc.) that is accessed locally instead of fetched over the modem
I guess those would be the same ads I don't retrieve at all, thanks to an ad- (and pop-up)-blocking proxy (privoxy, but there's others). That really sped up my dial-up surfing.

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