In a survey of 2.6 million web documents [20] searched by the
Inktomi web crawler search engine
it was found that the mean document size on the world wide web was 4.4KB, the
median size was 2.0KB and the maximum size that was encountered was 1.6MB.
Referring to figure 7.2 it can be seen that the lower the segment size, the better the performance of T/TCP over normal TCP/IP. With a mean document size of 4.4KB, this results in an average saving of just over 55% in the number of packets. When taking the median size into account, there is a saving of approximately 60%.
Timewise there will be an improvement in speed, depending of course on the reliability of the network.