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Optimize Parallel Downloads to Minimize Object Overhead

With the average web page made up of more than 50 objects (Krishnamurthy and Wills 2006), object overhead now dominates the latency of most web pages (Yuan 2005). Following the recommendation of the HTTP 1.1 specification, browsers typically default to two simultaneous threads per hostname. As the number of HTTP requests required by a web page increase from 3 to 23, the actual download time of objects as a percentage of total page download time drops from 50% to only 14% (see Figure 1).

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