Start Render Time

[jarrod1937]

Ok, i'm slightly confused now. Take a look:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100619...1/details/

Thats with the site using chunked encoding for the html doc. Now here is the previous one i showed you without any chunked encoding:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100619...1/details/

Now, going off what you said, the time to first byte should decrease, thus making the start render time decrease as well. As you can see, the start render time definitely did decrease in the chunked version... but if you look the chunked version actually has a larger time to first byte! Why is that? Secondly you can probably see that if i get chunked encoding working it fails to gzip the main html doc, which actually results in a longer total load time. I'm still trying to see if i can get it to both chunk the output and then gzip it too.

p.s. on a side note you might be amused to know why the chunking wasn't working... It turns out there was a directive in the .htaccess file in the main doc root that said "dechunk yes", essentially telling mod_gzip to ignore any chunking and collect the chunks to gzip them.