Author Profile: Austin Gunter
This guest post is by Austin Gunter, blogger and brand ambassador for WP Engine. WP Engine offers fast WordPress hosting that is optimized for speed and security. They also like breakfast tacos and long walks along the server beach.
Measuring Latency with Apache Bench
One of the important factors in the speed of your site is the distance between your servers and the browser visiting your site. The time it takes the information to travel from the server to the browser is called latency. Latency increases with distance, so no matter how fast your servers may be, high latency can make your site load slowly for visitors who are geographically removed from your servers.
