I don't know if I understand the point. "More shocking: 99% of users experience ~99.995%’ile HTTP response times. You need to know this number from Akamai if y

I don't know if I understand the point. "More shocking: 99% of users experience ~99.995%’ile HTTP response times. You need to know this number from Akamai if you want to predict what 99% of your users will experience. You only know a tiny bit when you know the 99%’ile." What does this mean? Can you explain this better? How is this a truth? I'm not convinced. If I'm making requests for assets for a page and requests 100 assets, sure... But the worst asset doesn't dictate the user experience. We're primarily concerned with the API response time - not all of the individual static assets. Assets don't block so if one little image is slow I wouldn't take that as a breaker. We don't even measure entire page load times - just what the user needs to see to have some sort of interest especially stuff loading above the fold etc.