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Frequently, businesses will turn to βconvenience metricsβ average (or mean) response times to gauge overall performance. However while the average might be easy to understand itβs also extremely misleading. (β¦) The best way to measure this is to track the 99th percentile response time: the worst 1% . (via The Most Misleading Measure of Response Time: Average β Optimizely Blog )