"Just ping it" is bad latency advice. ICMP gets deprioritized behind CDNs and tells you almost...
"Just ping it" is bad latency advice. ICMP gets deprioritized behind CDNs and tells you almost nothing about real request latency. This is how to benchmark API latency properly, with a real case study: finding where Polymarket's order book lives.
Why ping lies
ping measures ICMP echo round-trip. But:
CDNs and load balancers often rate-limit or deprioritize ICMP, so the number is noisy or misleadingly high/low.
It ignores TLS handshake cost, which dominates short HTTPS requests.
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