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How a web page actually loads
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Type 'mota.com' and press Enter. In roughly 200 milliseconds:
- Your browser asks DNS for the IP address of mota.com.
- It opens a TCP connection to that IP (often with TLS for HTTPS).
- It sends an HTTP GET request.
- The server responds with HTML.
- The browser parses the HTML, then fetches CSS, JS and images in parallel.
- It paints pixels to your screen.