Given you mention xhr
requests it might be the case your application relies on AJAX technology i.e. it generates and executes some JavaScript-driven HTTP requests when you open the initial page.
As per JMeter main page:
JMeter is not a browser, it works at protocol level. As far as web-services and remote services are concerned, JMeter looks like a browser (or rather, multiple browsers); however JMeter does not perform all the actions supported by browsers. In particular, JMeter does not execute the Javascript found in HTML pages. Nor does it render the HTML pages as a browser does (it's possible to view the response as HTML etc., but the timings are not included in any samples, and only one sample in one thread is ever displayed at a time).
So if this is the case - you will need to replicate these AJAX calls using either HTTP Request samplers and Parallel Controller or if JavaScript doesn't generate HTTP calls and just calculates something on client side - mimic this logic using JSR223 Test Elements