I was fortunate enough to be in the room for this talk by John Rauser at Velocity 2010. I realized a few minutes in that this talk was (a) super interesting and (b) not being filmed. So I pulled out my Flip and caught most of it.

This talk inspired me to plot some real world data to test the theory.

The slides from the talk are here.

The video now includes the final 7 minutes of John’s talk.

TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance – John Rauser from Goodfordogs on Vimeo.

See Also: John Rauser’s “Look At Your Data” from Velocity 2011