You guys made the Internet too easy to use :-) On 20 September 2021 13:57:33 BST, Steve Crocker wrote: >Related but slightly different: Attached is a slide some of my colleagues >put together a decade ago showing the number of DNS lookups involved in >displaying CNN's front page. > >Steve > > >On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:18 AM Valdis Klētnieks >wrote: > >> On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 18:21:56 -0700, Dave Taht said: >> > what actually happens during a web page load, >> >> I'm pretty sure that nobody actually understands that anymore, in any >> more than handwaving levels. >> >> I have a nice Chrome extension called IPvFoo that actually tracks the IP >> addresses contacted during the load of the displayed page. I'll let you >> make >> a guess as to how many unique IP addresses were contacted during a load >> of https://www.cnn.com >> >> ... >> >> >> ... >> >> >> ... >> >> >> 145, at least half of which appeared to be analytics. And that's only the >> hosts that were contacted by my laptop for HTTP, and doesn't count DNS, or >> load-balancing front ends, or all the back-end boxes. As I commented over >> on >> NANOG, we've gotten to a point similar to that of AT&T long distance, >> where 60% >> of the effort of connecting a long distance phone call was the cost of >> accounting and billing for the call. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Starlink mailing list >> Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >> -- Sent from the Aether.