static file performance "staircase" pattern

[Lucas Rolff]

What you should do, to increase the concurrent amount of requests, is to 
use domain-sharding, since as Paul mentioned, browsers have between 4 
and 8 (actually) simultaneous connections per domain, meaning if you 
introduce static1,2,3.domain.com, you will increase your concurrency.

But at same time you also need to be aware, that this can have a 
negative effect on your performance if you put too many domains, there's 
no golden rule on how many you need, it's all a site by site case, and 
it differs.
Also take into account your end-users connection can be limiting things 
heavily as well if you put too much concurrency (thus negative effect) - 
if you have a high number of concurrent requests being processed it will 
slow down the download time of each, meaning the perceived performance 
that the user see might get worse because it feels like the page is slower.

- Lucas

> Paul Smith <mailto:paul.j.smith0 at gmail.com>
> 9 May 2015 20:03
> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
>
> I am not an expert but I believe that most browsers only make between
> 4 to 6 simultaneous connections to a domain. So the first round of
> requests are sent and the response received and then the second round
> go out and are received back and so forth. Doing a search for
> something like "max downloads per domain" may bring you better
> information.
>
> Paul
>
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> Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <mailto:dennisml at conversis.de>
> 9 May 2015 19:37
> Hi,
> I'm trying to find out how to effectively deliver pages with lots of
> images on a page. Attached you see opening a static html page that
> contains lots of img tags pointing to static images. Please also note
> that all images are cached in the browser (hence the 304 response) so no
> actual data needs to be downloaded.
> All of this is happening on a CentOS 7 system using nginx 1.6.
>
> The question I have is why is it that the responses get increasingly
> longer? There is nothing else happening on that server and I also tried
> various optimizations like keepalive, multi_accept, epoll,
> open_file_cache, etc. but nothing seems to get rid of that "staircase"
> pattern in the image.
>
> Does anybody have an idea what the cause is for this behavior and how to
> improve it?
>
> Regards,
> Dennis
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