How a Browser Renders a Web Page
16.03.2021

As a developer, to create fast and reliable websites, it's crucial to understand every step a browser takes to display a web page, as each can be considered and optimized during development. This post is a brief overview of this process.

The process can be broken down into the following main stages

- Parsing HTML into DOM

- Fetching External Resources

- Parsing CSS and Creating CSSOM

- Executing JavaScript

- Combining DOM and CSSOM to Construct the Render Tree

- Layout Calculation and Painting

Parsing HTML

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