Downtime Monkey now logs more than 4 million website responses each day. We analysed these to see how fast websites respond in practice.

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We collected 1 million response times from real websites. Half a million from Pro plans and half a million from Free plans.

We then split these into groups: 0 to 1 second, 1 to 2 seconds, 2 to 3 seconds etc. and then counted the number in each group. For responses slower than 17 seconds a site is considered down.

Here are the results:

The majority of sites responded within a second, so we took another sample and broke the fastest sites into groups of a quarter of a second.

The results from Pro and Free monitors show a similar pattern:

The fastest 10% of websites respond in under 0.2 seconds.

The average response time is 1.28 seconds.

Over 90% of sites respond within 3 seconds.

Nearly 1% of websites are down at any single moment.

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