In website monitoring, response time is calculated as the total time taken to resolve the DNS, complete the TCP hand-shake, negotiate an SSL handshake (for HTTPS) and download the full HTML output from the server. However, it does not include getting the images and other resources that are loaded within the HTML page.
Note: The factors taken into account to calculate the response time might differ slightly for different monitors. The above definition is valid only for website monitoring.
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