Network Packet Loss and HTTP Performance

Network Packet Loss and HTTP Performance

Understanding Packet Loss Packet loss, as the name suggests, refers to data packets that are “lost” during network transmission and fail to reach their destination. The HTTP protocol runs on the TCP/IP protocol stack, and packet loss can occur at the network layer, such as when a router is overwhelmed and drops packets, or at … Read more

Improving Website Response Speed: Key Factors Affecting HTTP Performance

Improving Website Response Speed: Key Factors Affecting HTTP Performance

Our discussion on HTTP performance is based on the simplest model, which is the HTTP performance of a single server. Of course, this also applies to large-scale load-balanced clusters, as these clusters are composed of multiple individual HTTP servers. Additionally, we exclude scenarios where the client or server itself is overloaded or where different I/O … Read more