Latency
Latency is the delay between sending a request and receiving a response, usually measured in milliseconds.
Lower latency means a snappier experience. In monitoring, latency overlaps with response time and is heavily influenced by distance, network quality, and server load, which is why measuring from multiple locations matters.
Related terms
Response TimeResponse time is how long a service takes to respond to a request, usually measured in milliseconds.TTFB (Time To First Byte)Time To First Byte (TTFB) is the time between making a request and receiving the first byte of the response.Packet LossPacket loss is the percentage of network packets that fail to reach their destination.
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