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Development Tools Front End Web Optimization Workflow Why Performance Matters How the Web Works

Loris Guerra
Loris Guerra
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Posted by Loris Guerra
Loris Guerra
17,536 Points

What does the teacher mean?

What does the teacher means at 02:27 when he says:

"..it first loads any request past the initial allotment is held in weight" ?

Is the Video Transcript correct?

1 Answer

andren
andren
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andren
andren
28,558 Points

No, the transcript is not quite correct. The transcription has mixed up some of the words he is saying, as he pronounces them somewhat ambiguously.

This is what he actually says around that time in the video:

So this means that at first load any request past that initial allotment is held in wait, resulting in a cascading waterfall of blocked requests.

I have highlighted the main words that were changed in the transcript. The meaning of his words is that IE7 which could only make 2 web connections at a time would have to wait to start any connections beyond those two until one of them finished. Which slowed it down quite a bit if a webpage required many separate connections to load.