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Re:Battle-ready Nginx – an optimization guide by rimantas on Sunday November 17, 2013 @10:37AM (#6749313) 

  > Chrome and Firefox usually open more than 10 connections.
According to browserscope.org both browsers open only 6 connections per hostname.
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Re:Battle-ready Nginx – an optimization guide by bjt on Sunday November 17, 2013 @04:19PM (#6750930)
For http connections that's true. Websockets have a separate pool though, and a much higher cap (200 in Firefox). Nginx recently added websocket support.
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