I think the source of the confusion is that you are conflating sharing of a [SPDY] connection with sharing of a resource identifier (a URI/URL). This is a misun

I think the source of the confusion is that you are conflating sharing of a [SPDY] connection with sharing of a resource identifier (a URI/URL). This is a misunderstanding. SPDY multiplexes multiple streams over a single connection (or more accurately, a session). Each stream is used in the HTTP layering case to correspond to a request/response pair for fetching a resource at a URL. So, even though a single connection is shared, different resources at different URLs can be simultaneously requested over the same SPDY connection. In short, SPDY does not imply combining resources. Application level combining of resources is a common hack to work around lack of parallelization at the HTTP/1 protocol level, but as noted, it has deficiencies.