How fast is Google
www.google.com
- Typical
- 47 ms
- On a bad day
- 80 ms
- Best region
- Singapore
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Short takes on latency tradeoffs that matter when you need to ship, not read a textbook.
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.
The answer used to be simple. It isn't anymore.
The Google Fonts answer changed after shared browser caches disappeared. The real decision now is where your server lives.