Latency is a general term that broadly means any delay during the execution of any specified operations. In computer networks, latency means downtime or delay that may occur during the transmission of data packets or during the processing of received data.
The delay may occur during the operation of software interacting with the Internet, webcasting of an online video stream, during the passage of an online computer game, etc.
This indicator is measured in milliseconds and depends on the network bandwidth.
