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Increase HTTP performance by fitting in the initial TCP slow start window

Did you know that if your site’s under ~12kb the first page will load significantly faster? Servers only send a few packets (typically 10) in the initial round-trip while TCP is warming up (referred to as TCP slow start). After sending the first set of packets, it needs to wait for the client to acknowledge it…
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Aug 8, 2021Increase HTTP performance by fitting in the initial TCP slow start window by mstats1026

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