latency

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Realistic painterly illustration of a lone courier racing along a very long winding road at dusk, a distant city glowing far ahead

Your app is fast for you and slow for everyone else — the reason is geography

Latency is the wait between a request and its answer, and distance is the biggest cause. Why far-away users feel the lag, and the one thing that fixes most of it. Tap the ladder.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

Painterly night-time world map seen from above, with glowing golden server nodes on several continents connected by arcs of light, some short and some stretching across the globe

BuildInteractive

The free speed trick your app already gets — and exactly where it stops

Distance costs time, so a CDN keeps copies of your site on servers near your users. What can be cached at the edge, and what can't. Tap the ladder to see the difference.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min