In standard HTTP browsing, you should see a very simple pattern, as follows:
- TCP opens the connection (three-way handshake)
- HTTP sends a GET command
- Data is downloaded to your browser
In most of the cases, opening a web page will open multiple connections, and in many cases, tens of them. For example, when you open a news page (www.cnn.com, www.foxnews.com, and www.bbc.co.uk), it opens the main page, bar rolling breaking news, commercials, window reporting local weather, connections to other sites, and so on. Don't be surprised if a single page will open nearly hundred connections, or even more.
In the case of a web page that opens multiple connections (as most web pages do), each connection requires a DNS query, response, ...