Latency numbers every frontend developer should know
An educational resource explaining how network latency impacts web page load times and user experience, and how technologies like React Server Components can significantly reduce latency by processing requests on the server side.
Web page load times and responsiveness to user action in web apps is a primary driver of user satisfaction–and both are often dominated by network latency.
Latency itself is a function of the user's connection to the internet (Wifi, LTE, 5G), how far away the server is that the user is connecting to, and the quality of the network in between.
While the latency numbers may seem low by themselves, they compound quickly. For example, a of depth 3 on a 300ms link leads to a total latency of 900ms. Technologies like can move network waterfalls to the server where the same request pattern might be 100 times as fast.network waterfallReact Server Components
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