A bit confused about chrome results

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Patrick,

I had Jarrod run a test from his place that has 100ms latency and he got this:



In his test Chrome is able to grab the CSS pretty early.

I may be totally off, by I wonder if you could navigate to a static html page on the c drive, in web page test, prior to running the clean cache test. That way you would possibly spin up the bits that chrome needs in the tab prior to measuring.

I guess there are 2 unprimed cache cases:

1) first page you navigate to in a tab
2) subsequent pages navigated in the tab

Since Google is everyone's home page, I would argue that 2 is more common. Our real world stats suggest chrome is the fastest to first render (just behind IE10 at the moment).