3 ms·

I don't understand the point. Surely TTFB is used to measure server latency (basically a ping). Why would TTFB be used as a proxy for page load speed when you

I don't understand the point. Surely TTFB is used to measure server latency (basically a ping). Why would TTFB be used as a proxy for page load speed when you could just use...page load speed?

gilini 14y ago
I believe they're referring to using TTFB as a performance test, to measure how long took the server to process your request.
- dknecht 14y ago
  This is metric that is commonly used in the popular webpagetest.org performances test