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In the vast majority of cases, neither of those things practically matter. The multiple connections are for intended for concurrency, not parallelism. Web asset
by CyberRabbi 6y ago
In the vast majority of cases, neither of those things practically matter. The multiple connections are for intended for concurrency, not parallelism. Web assets are not large enough for slow start to impact overall download speed by any large margin, nor sustain downloads long enough that the connections start to compete. Requests are bursty.
- youngtaff 6y agoIt's quite a few years old –https://web.archive.org/web/20170724120441/https://insouciant.org/tech/network-congestion-and-web-browsing/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170724120441/https://insoucian... – but I still see this in some packet captures
- CyberRabbi 6y agoYea technically there is a potential benefit but the point is that it’s so marginal that the majority of users won’t ever notice it. You’re saving 1-5ms off of a page load.