Does the benefit of using a CDN outweigh the cost of making all these HTTP request?

[KSBA Techie]

I've enabled the CDN support.

Unfortunately look at all the http request that get generated on one of my pages.

I used to have enable styles and javascript files set to true, but with the CDN, that's ignored.

Does the benefit of using a CDN outweigh the cost of making all these HTTP request?

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Menu.css

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Default/Menu.Default.css

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Splitter.css

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Vista/Splitter.Vista.css

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/TreeView.css

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Default/TreeView.Default.css

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Window.css

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Vista/Window.Vista.css

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/Core.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/jQuery.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/jQueryPlugins.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/Scrolling/ScrollingScripts.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/Navigation/NavigationScripts.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Menu/RadMenuScripts.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Splitter/RadSplitterScripts.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/TreeView/RadTreeViewScripts.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/Popup/PopupScripts.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/Animation/AnimationScripts.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Window/RadWindow.js

# http://aspnet-scripts.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Window/RadWindowManager.js

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Default/Menu/rmSprite.png

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# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/TreeView/FirstNodeSpan.png

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/TreeView/TopLine.png

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Default/TreeView/PlusMinus.png

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Default/TreeView/ItemSelectedBg.png

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/TreeView/NodeSpan.png

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/TreeView/MiddleLine.png

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/TreeView/BottomLine.png

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Common/TreeView/SingleLine.png

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Vista/Splitter/ResizeBarVerticalSprites.gif

# http://aspnet-skins.telerikstatic.com/ajaxz/2009.3.1208/Vista/Splitter/ExpandCollapseBarsCommands.gif

[sitefinitysteve]

I like the CDN for a couple reasons ...

1) Expires headers on all those files, so while there's a lot...they wont need to be re-downloaded for something like 30 years (cant remember the exact far-future date).  So while there is an initial cost (more requests), you're also allowing your sites files to come down faster because they aren't waiting on the telerik chunks to D/L from your domain as they're coming from teleriks domain in parallel

2) Doesn't spend my bandwidth downloading them :)