Recently I made a wall calendar with 12 request waterfalls for a conference, highlighting different web performance issues. This article goes through these waterfalls one by one and explains what they show.

Essentially, there are multiple different ways in which we can attribute a certain task to other tasks or to the party that initiated it.

Those different ways are not always obvious, because for the straightforward case, they all kinda give you the same answer. As a result, it took me a while to wrap my head around their differences, and I’m hoping to save someone some time by outlining them.