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blocking time in google chrome


What does blocking time mean in Google Chrome developer tools and why is it so big?

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Solution

  • "Blocking" is the time the request spent waiting for an already established connection to become available (i.e. we're reusing a connection that may be used to transfer another resource at the time the request was started).

    via https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-chrome-developer-tools/8jpALcJqkUM

    There are a couple of potential solutions to this, split requests out into different sub-domains for other assets. Or look into SPDY