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

**URL:** <https://community.swiftype.com/t/what-is-an-acceptable-response-time-for-a-simple-search-query/672>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [April 13, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/what-is-an-acceptable-response-time-for-a-simple-search-query/672 "2018-04-13T22:10:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![haraldur.karlsson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/aeb1de/32.png) [@haraldur.karlsson](https://community.swiftype.com/u/haraldur.karlsson)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/what-is-an-acceptable-response-time-for-a-simple-search-query/672/1 "2018-04-13T22:10:29Z")

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This is the request to `/search.json`

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

 ![25](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/swiftype/original/1X/9f3ccb76de16b9b3ca58223aff69f72c8ebe86e3.png)

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

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**Author:** ![mike](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.swiftype.com/mike/32/37_2.png) [@mike](https://community.swiftype.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/what-is-an-acceptable-response-time-for-a-simple-search-query/672/2 "2018-04-13T22:26:30Z")

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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.