Before clicking on this page I had 0 connections open to my server.

root@host [~]# netstat -plan|grep :80|awk {‘print $5’}|cut -d: -f 1|sort|uniq -c|sort -nk 1
1
1 0.0.0.0
1 127.0.0.1

Now I have 20.

root@host [~]# netstat -plan|grep :80|awk {‘print $5’}|cut -d: -f 1|sort|uniq -c|sort -nk 1
1
1 0.0.0.0
1 69.16.208.35
20 23.28.18.128

I opened the window in another browser and I have 42 connections now…

Why does clicking on two pages open 42 different connections to port 80 from my modem.  Does this mean that 42 requests were made in Apache?  I don’t know but I would like to know how to configure this.  Seems silly that it would need more than one connection per a page served.