Blocked time and IE 8

March 03st, 2008 - 5:00PM

A common question we hear from our customers is “What is the Blocked time in HttpWatch and why are we seeing some much of it?” The Blocked time in HttpWatch is shown as a gray block at the start of a request: We measure this time by looking at the time interval between these two events: The point at which IE determines that it requires the resource at a certain URL. For example, it may have downloaded some HTML and encountered an <img> tag that refers to a GIF file. At some later time IE peforms a network action required to download or … Continue reading →