Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems quite disingenuous to claim low latency and variance based on a synthetic benchmark when the real world p95 latency and variance will likely be quite high with a normal distribution of user geos. And FWIW I requested the same link on my laptop and then phone and my phone took >1s to resolve the redirect.
I appreciate the response. I clarified the method that I am using on the comparison page, but did not want to go into too much detail because it was taking more real estate than I wanted it to. I will extend that text by saying 1 ping is taking the average time of hitting the URL 5 times. The reason for taking 5 readings directly after each other is to filter out any network related issues and noise on the graphs. Wh…
Maybe hitting the URL every 10 minutes keeps the URLs you test in your cache.
If users are frequently getting >1s due to cold starts and your stats are systematically excluding them, then the stats aren't very realistic.
I'm guessing you can see how many cold starts there were in AWS Lambda somehow... I can say anecdotally that I got slow responses several times from link.warpurl.com