[TYPO3-performance] Spreading HTTP request among multiple hostnames

[Martin Kutschker]

Mario Rimann schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> I recently played around with a new Firefox/Firebug add-on called "page
> speed" [1] which is comparable to YSlow from Yahoo. The tool allows you
> to generate reports regarding the performance of your website. And one
> recommendation I saw was:
> 
> ---
> Parallelize downloads across hostnames
> This page makes 40 parallelizable requests to www.domain.tld. Increase
> download parallelization by distributing these requests across multiple
> hostnames:
> [list of 40 static files like css and images]
> ---
> 
> I know why this is recommended 

Could you elaborate or provide a link with an explanation? Unless there
are "cheap" webservers handling only static content on the other side I
don't see why my browser will be faster this way. Or is it simply
because browsers will only make a limited number of requests to the same
host?

Masi