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> And the handshake time doesn’t compound; there is no need to open a new connection to the server for every resource needed by a webpage. The web browser just
by cma 5y ago
> And the handshake time doesn’t compound; there is no need to open a new connection to the server for every resource needed by a webpage. The web browser just keeps reusing the same connection until it runs out of resources to fetch from the server.
Third party analytics and other resources often means it compounds even for handshaking, but dependent resources can compound too even on the same server even if they don't each need a handshake.