Variable speed of response with jQuery Ajax requests?

If that's the case, then that's the time of the request itself. At that point, all of your developer-land JS has already executed and the only JS that's running is the jQuery code in the ajax() function.

Possibly caching both in the browser and any php mem-caching going on.

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