Latency

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Introduction

In web scraping, low latency is a key factor. When you want to build real-time AI agents and train LLMs on large web datasets, the web scraping portion has to be streamlined and optimized.

Olostep maintains a 2-6 seconds average latency by using a combination of techniques. This paragraph explains how we do it at a high level.

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Implementation

Under the hood, the request is processed by a browser that is already running. This cuts down the time it takes to spin up a new browser instance and load the page.