DNS lookups mean web pages can absolutely waste my time before they even download a single image. Typing in one address triggers DNS lookups for the site itself, images, analytics, advertisements, and whatever content delivery network it sits on. The warmed (cached DNS) median fell by a significant 23.37ms, or 95.98%, and every cached result landed between 0.84 and 1.52ms. I disabled Firefox’s DNS over HTTPS, cleared out its internal DNS cache, and disabled HTTP caching in DevTools. Those logs ended up exposing a DNS query I hadn’t actually considered:query[HTTPS] example.com forwarded example.com to 1.1.1.1This was an HTTPS DNS record.