Latency - more important than bandwidth?

interesting to look into, latency increases with international visitors, also on mobile phones.

latency is number of files the page loads (many external CSS stylesheets a bad idea then??)

but then again this is only important for first uncached visit right...?

reckons unicode bullets are good alternative to using images, has list of all the cool unicode characters

http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/11/latency_friendly_customized_bullets_using_unicode_characters#Comparingloadtimes