Technical SEO

Time to First Byte TTFB

Definition

Time to First Byte measures how long after a request the server starts returning data. Under 800ms is considered good, over 2.5 seconds is poor. TTFB matters for AEO because aggressive AI agents time out on slow servers before they finish parsing the page.

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