How fast is Google
www.google.com
- Typical
- 47 ms
- On a bad day
- 80 ms
- Best region
- Singapore
Run a global latency test for your website or API from 5 regions in seconds.
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Send a single request per region and see results fast.
Amsterdam, SFO, Montreal, Singapore, Tokyo.
Latency, status, and regional comparison.
See how well-known sites and APIs feel from different regions, from normal loads to rougher response times.
www.google.com
fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Geist:wght@400;500;60...
registry.npmjs.org
Short takes on latency tradeoffs that matter when you need to ship, not read a textbook.
Your laptop says the API is fast. Your users on the other side of the world are telling you something else.
A practical guide to checking API latency from several regions, understanding what the numbers mean, and turning that into an infrastructure decision.
You've probably never measured it. It's probably the biggest performance problem you have.
Time to First Byte controls when rendering can begin, which is why it quietly drags down LCP, Core Web Vitals, and search performance.