WLED generating many TCP connections

I was tracking down some spurious network traffic and I happened to notice that home assistant is generating a large number of TCP connections to my WLED modules. I’m use the native WLED integration on home assistant core in docker. It looks to be opening a new connection to port 80 on the WLED module about once every 1-5 seconds. Is this expected behavior? I’d expect some sort of persistent connection to be established with the module but maybe its just making a new connection for each poll.