Hi >From Sebb "JMeter measures the latency from just before sending the request to just after the first response has been received. Thus the time includes all the processing needed to assemble the request as well as assembling the response, which in general will be longer than one byte."
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg18437.html regards deepak On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Nikolay_Miroshnichenko <[email protected]>wrote: > I guess it's not a new question but I couldn't find an exact answer and I'm > still confused in realizing the differences between the Load Time and the > Latency. > > My guesses: the latency is a waiting time from the point of sending a > request to the point of receiving the first byte of the response. > And the load time is latency plus time of downloading the whole body of the > response. Is that both correct? > > As I've noticed, they either slightly differ (latency is shorter) or equal > (almost always). > > Here is an example: > > Thread Name: NewUsers 1-782 > Sample Start: 2009-10-10 23:11:29 MSD > Load time: 47762 > Latency: 47734 > Size in bytes: 589641 > Sample Count: 1 > Error Count: 0 > Response code: 200 > Response message: OK > > and another: > > Thread Name: NewUsers 1-939 > Sample Start: 2009-10-10 23:12:16 MSD > Load time: 479 > Latency: 452 > Size in bytes: 589641 > Sample Count: 1 > Error Count: 0 > Response code: 200 > Response message: OK > > -- > Best Regards > Nikolay Miroshnichenko > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
