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You type `example.com`, hit Enter, and about 300 milliseconds later a page shows up. It feels instant. It is not — it is a relay race with a dozen runners, most of whom you have never thought about. This post follows that race from the moment you press Enter until the HTML bytes land back in your browser. That is where we stop. Turning those bytes into pixels on screen — parsing, the DOM, layout, painting — is its own story.
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