I am trying to learn how to use the Chrome performance profiler to better optimise my applications but am finding it difficult to reason about the results I receive as they are a bit vague.
I have an application that has a small amount of HTML on it and running it in incognito mode.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
Hi
</body>
</html>
I have set a cache control header to attempt to cache the index page in the browser to eliminate network overhead and focus only on parse/rendering however it still makes a request to the server.
Even still, the 2ms value only covers a small portion shown in the performance tools which I assume is network transfer.
What is this "task" doing and why is it taking so long?
