what is considered average request processing time?

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What is normal time range for request processing?

Yeah very subjective question - could be an hour for a batch system, could be a second for a busy web server. — , Mar 09 '09 at 22:39

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '09 at 22:14

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Anything between 50ms to 500ms would be good.

This of course is only the server side. Have a look at Yahoo's Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site and Firebug YSlow on learning and measuring the response times on the client side as well.

answered Mar 09 '09 at 22:14

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '09 at 22:30

In my limited experience, the user will generally notice an interactive site as being slow if responses are routinely taking over one second. A few seconds or more can be maddening. By "interactive", I mean something where the user is going to be generating a lot of pages, like a forum.

Here's an interesting article / book snippet about response times: http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 09 '09 at 22:16

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Anything slower than 8 seconds is generally considered too long. 1-2 seconds is average for most heavy websites.

answered Mar 09 '09 at 22:16

what is considered average request processing time?

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