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Fundamentals × What Makes a Website Slow?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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What Is Latency?

Latency is the time that it takes to connect from one computer to another. If there's 200 milliseconds in latency, even though our internet is fast, we could have poor latency. So by getting your server, I guess closer to you, that will, CDNs help that. Now we're starting to see edge functions solve that a lot.

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