If you're talking about humans, absolute time is much more important than "3X". Everybody would notice the difference between 1 second and 3 seconds. Nobody wou

If you're talking about humans, absolute time is much more important than "3X". Everybody would notice the difference between 1 second and 3 seconds. Nobody would notice the difference between 1 ms and 3 ms. 100ms is perceivable, but not a problem in most situations involving a web request.