What is a server request?
A "Request" refers to a call to the Core dna engine over the internet, excluding calls to static CDN-served assets.
A "Request" is a call to Core dna engine over the Internet which resolves as a dynamic web page or structured data content. For example, AJAX requests, headless queries, and REST API calls.
This excludes calls to static assets that are normally served by the CDN (Content Delivery Network), such as images, fonts, JS files, CSS files, etc.
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