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API loading slow? (1 sec)
posted by JonasVanheckeSTAFFMOD on November 20, 2015 at 5:29 AM
Hey,
I need to make a website based on a API for a school project. I've chosen for tMDb API which had lots of information I needed. However, when I'm using the API and I'm loading the data, it takes a whole second to load. I don't know if it's normal with the tMDb API, but other APIs are faster. So, anything to do about it, or is it normal?
Thanks.
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 20, 2015 at 10:34 AM
Hi JonasVanhecke,
What request(s) are taking this long? Looking at our logs, I don't see anything in this range. Our 95th percentile response times are sitting around the 100ms mark, search is considerably better at 20ms.
Reply by Kevin Deery
on December 15, 2015 at 6:56 AM
Hi JonasVanhecke,
Im sure this is related to the other work your doing to the results ie displaying them on screen etc and not the api response time
I don't know if your using a wrapper for the api or you have created your own methods, however if you have your own you should put a break point at the http request and step over it. It will defs not take 1 sec to get the response
If you are using a wrapper , then try fiddler to track the call and look into the response time of the request
Kevin