How much network latency is between you and the load balancer, and between the load balancer and the web servers? Normally, the initial TLS connection should be

How much network latency is between you and the load balancer, and between the load balancer and the web servers? Normally, the initial TLS connection should be around 4 * the network latency, and subsequent requests should be very close to the network latency. Give httping [0] a try for benchmarks. [0]: https://www.vanheusden.com/httping/ https://www.vanheusden.com/httping/