Optimizing NGINX TLS Time To First Byte (TTTFB) - igvita.comBy Ilya Grigorik on December 16, 2013 Network latency is one of our primary performance bottlenecks on the web. In the worst case, new navigation requires a DNS lookup, TCP handshake, two roundtrips to negotiate the TLS tunnel, and finally a minimum of another roundtrip for the actual HTTP request and response — that's five network roundtrips to get the first few bytes of the HTML document! Modern
