What does the times mean in Google Chrome's timeline in the network panel?

Question

Often when troubleshooting performance using the Google Chrome\'s network panel I see different times and often wonder what they mean.

Can someone validate that I

Answer 1

Blocking: Time the request spent waiting for an already established connection to become available for re-use. As was said in another answer it does not depend on your server - this is client's problem.

I do not agree with the statement above. All else being same [my machine workload] - my browser shows very less "Blocking" time for one website and long blocking time for some other website.

So if waiting for one of the six threads + proxy negotiation** is high, it is mostly because of the cascading effect of the server's slowness OR the bad design of page [too much being sent across the wire, too many times].

** - whatever "Proxy Negotiation" means!, nobody explains this very well, particularly where no local/CDN proxy is actually involved