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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