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 and listening for incoming requests. This cuts down the time it takes to start a new browser instance and load the page. The node is also selected based on the current bandwidth and latency. This ensures that the request is processed by the node that can load the page the fastest.