Take the 2-minute tour ×  Sometimes when I am browsing the web,
among the hostnames that fly by in the statusbar is one that
includes gstatic.com as the base domain. I can't navigate to
http://gstatic.com to gain any more information. All I get is a
Google page that says  The requested URL / was not found on this
server.  So I imagine that gstatic.com has something to do with
Google. Whatever it is, it seems to take forever when I am
browsing a page that references gstatic.com.  share|improve this
question  closed as off topic by Gnoupi Aug 27 '10 at 8:12   4
Answers 4  up vote 51 down vote accepted     • increases
performance by increasing, in theory, the number of connections
the browser can use, by default, most browsers will only make
two connections to a single server. While this is configurable,
most users don't bother, so having content come from multiple
domains, it can open two connections for every domain the site
uses. This loads the content into the users browser faster.    •
decreases bandwidth b