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Fundamentals × What Makes a Website Slow?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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The Round Trip of a Website

The round trip of a website is maybe we should explain that. Somebody goes to a URL and that URL goes from that user's computer over their internet. It does what's called a DNS lookup, which is it. And then that server, the request is sent to that server and the server says, oh, there's a request here. That's what's called cold start. Most servers are long running, but now we're starting to see serverless functions,. edge functions, those things have to start up.

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