https://bitspeed.org/tags/http/ Recent content in Http on BitSpeed.org Hugo en-us Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitspeed.org/http-transfer-timing-needs-more-than-a-stopwatch/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitspeed.org/http-transfer-timing-needs-more-than-a-stopwatch/ <p>Two HTTP requests can take the same total time for very different reasons. One may spend most of its observed interval establishing a connection. Another may receive its first response byte quickly and then spend longer reading the body. A stopwatch hides that distinction.</p> <p>Inspect records trace events and keeps the interval boundaries explicit. Some events can be missing or ambiguous. Concurrent connection attempts also make a neat additive waterfall less honest than it looks. The report leaves unavailable values unavailable instead of filling them with zeroes.</p>