Secure Web Gateway Latency Benchmarks: How to Run Your Own
A trading analyst in London once told me his morning ritual was waiting ninety seconds for Bloomberg to load after the company rolled out a new secure web gateway. The vendor's deck promised "single-digit millisecond added latency." His stopwatch said otherwise. The gap between slide and reality is where this post lives.
Independent benchmarks are the only way to know what a secure web gateway actually costs you in user-perceived performance. Vendor numbers are generated in controlled labs with ideal routing. Yours will not be.
This is a step-by-step guide to running a secure web gateway latency benchmark that your CFO, your network team, and your end users will trust.
Why Vendor Latency Numbers Lie
Every secure web gateway vendor publishes a latency figure. Most of them ar...








