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A performance budget is a quantifiable target for how fast a website loads. This can be in the form of a goal for total HTTP requests, page weight, total response time, or any combination of these.
Vocabulary
- Performance Budget - A quantifiable target for how fast a website loads.
- Page Weight - The total file size of a page and all of its assets.
- HTTP request - HyperText Transfer Protocol request or HTTP request for short is when a client computer asks a web server for a piece of data, such as an HTML file or an image.
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When a person uses a web browser on a
device like a phone,
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a tablet, or a PC and they type in a web
address or click a link.
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That creates a hypertext transfer protocol
request, or HTTP request.
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It's called a request because it's asking
a web server for a piece of information.
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At first, that request might be for an
HTML page, but
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then that HTML page generates subsequent
HTTP requests
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when it in turn asks for CSS, Java script,
images, and more.
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