Gap between Initial Connection and TTFB

Web Performance Discuss Test Results
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I noticed that my test results are vastly different than the ones I’ve seen here. Usually, the waterfall is very continuous. However, mine breaks up quite a bit and has a big gap between Initial Connection and Time to First Byte.

Here I just test a static page and the problem is very apparent.
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/111207_PW_2E2TK/1/details/

What could cause something like this? Thanks for the help in advanced!

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That’s going to be out of your control and a function of the machine the test is running on (probably Chrome starting the renderer process). Here is the same test from Dulles: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/111207_KE_2E62N/1/details/

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That is so beautiful!! Thanks pmeenan! I’ll use the machine from Dulles from now on.