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How many concurrent AJAX (XmlHttpRequest) requests are allowed in popular browsers?

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In Firefox 3, the answer is 6 per domain: as soon as a 7th XmlHttpRequest (on any tab) to the same domain is fired, it is queued until one of the other 6 finish.



What are the numbers for the other major browsers?



Also, are there ways around these limits without having my users modify their browser settings? For example, are there limits to the number of jsonp requests (which use script tag injection rather than an XmlHttpRequest object)?



Background: My users can make XmlHttpRequests from a web page to the server, asking the server to run ssh commands on remote hosts. If the remote hosts are down, the ssh command takes a few minutes to fail, eventually preventing my users from performing any further commands.


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  1. UserMay 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM

    One trick you can use to increase the number of concurrent conncetions is to host your images from a different sub domain. These will be treated as seperate requests, each domain is what will be limited to the concurrent maximum.

    IE6, IE7 - Have a limit of two. IE8 is 6 if your a broadband, 2 if you are dial up.

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  2. UserMay 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM

    The network results at Browserscope will give you both Connections per Hostname and Max Connections for popular browsers. The data is gathered by running tests on users "in the wild," so it will stay up to date.

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  3. UserMay 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM

    With IE6 / IE7 one can tweak the number of concurrent requests in the registry. Here's how to set it to four each.

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
    "MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000004
    "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:00000004

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  4. UserMay 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM

    According to IE 9 – What’s Changed? on the HttpWatch blog, IE9 still has a 2 connection limit when over VPN.


    Using a VPN Still Clobbers IE 9 Performance

    We previously reported
    about the scaling back of the maximum
    number of concurrent connections in IE
    8 when your PC uses a VPN connection.
    This happened even if the browser
    traffic didn’t go over that
    connection.

    Unfortunately, IE 9 is affected by VPN
    connections in the same way:

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  5. UserMay 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM

    I believe there is a maximum number of concurrent http requests that browsers will make to the same domain, which is in the order of 4-8 requests depending on the user's settings and browser.

    You could set up your requests to go to different domains, which may or may not be feasible. The Yahoo guys did a lot of research in this area, which you can read about (here). Remember that every new domain you add also requires a DNS lookup. The YSlow guys recommend between 2 and 4 domains to achieve a good compromise between parallel requests and DNS lookups, although this is focusing on the page's loading time, not subsequent AJAX requests.

    Can I ask why you want to make so many requests? There is good reasons for the browsers limiting the number of requests to the same domain. You will be better off bundling requests if possible.

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  6. UserMay 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM

    Here's the list so far -- please help complete it!

    Number of concurrent requests of any type (including AJAX, image loads, etc) to a single domain:

    FF 2: 2
    FF 3: 6
    IE 6/7: 2
    IE 8: 2 on dialup, 6 on broadband
    Safari: ?
    Chrome: ?

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