Recently we were happy to post some shout outs for our dev team, who executed a significant upgrade to our systems with minimal disruption. A flawless transition to keep things performing at the levels we expect. But how does the API usually perform? We wanted to share some stats regarding how quickly our API typically responds. Below are some external, minute-by-minute checks of our API from a diverse set of US locations. The following was taken over the course of a 24-hour period:

Average GET requests: Under 175 milliseconds
Average Leaderboard requests: Under 250 milliseconds
Average transaction POST: Under 400 milliseconds

By way of comparison, Facebook’s average API response time for us over the course of the last month has been 14,249 milliseconds.

The key takeaway here is: “Our tech boys rock” but in more technical terms: “We slayed the evil database monster with some crazy ass ops wizardry.”