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How to measure the performance of a website

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Or, perhaps one or more of the 10-20 routers in the path needed to reach the destination gets busy for a hundred milliseconds or so. This includes all HTML, style sheets, cookies, any javascript that has to execute, etc. Where is the DNS? Is your PC using a DNS on the same local area network as your computer?

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Why is my SaaS application so slow?

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While you’re at the browser, clear cached files and cookies. This is sort of a long shot, but are you using a corporate DNS server? You might try temporarily switching to a public DNS like Google’s 8.8.8.8. DNS lookups can introduce significant latency on new connections. Just for testing, close them.