Comment on How fast is apple.com?parentComments−gbraad13ywhen a browser encounters <script src="" it will usually block until the script is loaded before moving on (when no async is used). The result would be a staircase pattern: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/121024_GH_A1Q/1/details/For assets like images it would allow parallel connections until the configured limit.−mjs13yThe JS assets 4 through 8 all commence loading at the same time.
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when a browser encounters <script src="" it will usually block until the script is loaded before moving on (when no async is used). The result would be a staircase pattern: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/121024_GH_A1Q/1/details/
For assets like images it would allow parallel connections until the configured limit.
The JS assets 4 through 8 all commence loading at the same time.