Ah, okay, so it's more about having to initiate thousands of requests for a single page than so much about the latency of any single request in those thousands

Ah, okay, so it's more about having to initiate thousands of requests for a single page than so much about the latency of any single request in those thousands — because even if they were all to a local server, that's still terribly inefficient, and with latency it's even worse. Thanks!