title: How much does a single request to the server cost
body: <p>I was wondering how much do you win by putting all of your css scripts and stuff that needs to be downloaded in one file?</p>
  
  <p>I know that you would win a lot by using sprites, but at some point it might actually hurt to do that.</p>
  
  <p>For example my website uses a lot of small icons and most of the pages has different icons after combining all those icons together i might get over 500kb in total, but if i make one sprite per page it is reduced to almost 50kb/page so that's cool.</p>
  
  <p>But what about scripts <code>js/css</code> how much would i win by making a script for each page which has just over ~100 lines? Or maybe i wouldn't win at all?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question</strong>, basically i want to know how much does a single request cost to download a file and is it really bad to to have many script/image files with todays modern browsers and a high speed connections.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>Thank you all for your answers, it was hard to chose just one because every answer did answer my question, I chose to reward the one that in my opinion answered my question about request cost the most directly, I will not accept any answer as correct because everyone was.</p>