Packet Loss

Packet loss is the percentage of network packets that fail to reach their destination.

Even small packet loss degrades performance and reliability — slow loads, dropped connections, choppy calls. Ping-based monitoring measures loss alongside latency to spot network trouble before it becomes an outage.

Related terms

ICMP / PingICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) is the network protocol behind LatencyLatency is the delay between sending a request and receiving a response, usually measured in milliseconds.JitterJitter is the variation in latency over time — how much the delay between packets fluctuates.

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