What is an acceptable response time for a simple search query?

This is the request to /search.json

The index only contains 18 documents. This query has one filter and a 3 character search string.

To me this is not really an acceptable response time. Is this normal?

Hi Haraldur,

Typical response times on the high-end of latency are sub 200ms, so your experience is fairly extreme. If you’ve not done so already, please open up a support case and include a copy of your request that’s consistently slow to respond.

We’ll dig in more from there.