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Anurag Vishwakarma
Anurag Vishwakarma

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Clearing Up the Confusion: Latency vs Throughput

Most people have a common misconception that a fast internet connection always means a fast app experience.

In reality, two different factors are at play: latency and throughput

Latency is the time it takes for a single request to travel from your device to a server and back. It’s what determines how quickly you see a response after clicking a button or loading a page.

Throughput is the amount of data that can be delivered over a network in a given period. It’s about how much information can move through the system at once.

Both latency and throughput impact performance, but in different ways.

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