Understanding Chrome network log “Stalled” state

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Google gives a breakdown of these fields in the Evaluating network performance section of their DevTools documentation.

Excerpt from Resource network timing:

Stalled/Blocking

Time the request spent waiting before it could be sent. This time is inclusive of any time spent in proxy negotiation. Additionally, this time will include when the browser is waiting for an already established connection to become available for re-use, obeying Chrome’s maximum six TCP connection per origin rule.

(If you forget, Chrome has an “Explanation” link in the hover tooltip and under the “Timing” panel.)

Basically, the primary reason you will see this is because Chrome will only download 6 files per-server at a time and other requests will be stalled until a connection slot becomes available.

This isn’t necessarily something that needs fixing, but one way to avoid the stalled state would be to distribute the files across multiple domain names and/or servers, keeping CORS in mind if applicable to your needs, however HTTP2 is probably a better option going forward. Resource bundling (like JS and CSS concatenation) can also help to reduce amount of stalled connections.

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