Blog Developer Blog Deliver Faster Downloads for Better Browsing, Part 4 of 5 The previous three articles in Akamai’s web performance series unpacked individual web performance metrics, and the final two articles in this series will explain how browsers work. To better understand how those performance metrics work, you’ll need to know plenty of specifics on how web browsers operate. \r\n As mentioned in the first article , there are two main causes for bad performance: \r\n \r\n Slow internet connections that stall asset loading times \r\n A lack of developer awareness on the single-threaded nature of web browsers, which yields poorly performing front-end code \r\n \r\n The power of performance engineering \r\n Many users — especially those on 3G or similarly slow connection types — know that network conditions affect all sites equally, and that reloading a slow loading site can help speed things up.…