Understand response-time metrics

Open the Response Time card

Open a project and find Response Time on its overview. Response times are collected as part of enabled uptime checks and shown in milliseconds.

If uptime monitoring is disabled or too few checks have completed, the card displays No response time history yet or No data.

Read the summary values

The card shows four values:

• Last Response is the response time recorded by the latest check.
• Best Response is the fastest recorded response during the last 24 hours.
• Slowest Response is the slowest recorded response during the last 24 hours.
• Avg Response is the average response time during the last 24 hours.

These values describe requests made from DeployMonitor's monitoring environment. They are useful for tracking changes over time but are not a replacement for end-user performance or browser measurements.

Read the chart

The chart groups the last 24 hours into hourly buckets and plots the average recorded response time for each bucket that contains data. Hover over a point to see its hour and response time.

A chart needs more than one populated bucket. Missing hours are omitted rather than treated as zero milliseconds.

Investigate a change

When response time rises:

1. Compare the change with project logs from the same period.
2. Check whether the latest response was successful.
3. Review recent deployments, plugin or theme updates, and infrastructure changes.
4. Confirm the behavior from another monitoring or testing location before drawing conclusions.

Use Find and understand project history to correlate performance changes with recorded work.