I was oversimplifying, hense the smiley. But since you want to argue... A request to an HTML document with no JavaScript src links, image links, or CSS links

I was oversimplifying, hense the smiley. But since you want to argue... A request to an HTML document with no JavaScript src links, image links, or CSS links will not make multiple requests. I'm old enough to remember when I had to actively tell images to load. The code for the page is written by programmers. Programmers cause browsers to make multiple requests. Often times without understanding "the spec".