Net panel description

[woomla]

Hi,

I can't find a complete documentation about the net panel. I'm
interested in the timeline, particularly what does blocking mean?

W.

[Honza (Jan Odvarko)]

> I can't find a complete documentation about the net panel. I'm
> interested in the timeline, particularly what does blocking mean?

I have written a blog post about the Net panel features the other day:
http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/introduction-to-firebug-net-panel/
(it's related to 1.4 so a bit outdated, but mostly still relevant)

Here is some more up to date info about the timing info in 1.5:

DNS Lookup - DNS resolution time. The time required to resolve a host
name.
Connecting - Time required to create TCP connection.
Blocking - Time spent in an internal browser queue waiting for a
network connection (e.g. the maximum number of connection to the same
server is set to 6 by default in Firefox).
Sending - Time required to send HTTP request to the server.
Waiting - Waiting for a response from the server.
Receiving - Time required to read entire response body from the
server.

To better understand the blocking time you can also see:
http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/page-load-analysis-using-firebug/
Example 2: Connection Limit

Honza