What is latency?

Latency is the time it takes for data to travel from its source to its destination, measured in milliseconds.

What is latency?

Latency is the delay between a user's action and a web application's response to that action, often referred to in networking terms as the total round-trip time for data to travel from one point to another. It is measured in milliseconds (ms).

What causes latency?

Latency is affected by physical distance between client and server, network congestion, the number of network hops, server processing time, and the protocols used for communication.

How to reduce latency

Strategies for reducing latency include using a CDN to serve content from edge locations closer to users, implementing connection keep-alive, using HTTP/3 with QUIC protocol, optimizing server-side processing, and pre-fetching resources.