Deep dives·13 June 2026 · 8 min read
p95 latency explained for QA engineers
What p95 actually means, why averages hide the bugs, and how to read a latency distribution as a tester.
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What p95 actually means, why averages hide the bugs, and how to read a latency distribution as a tester.
The average response time is the metric most likely to make a slow system look fine. Here is what to watch instead.
Which k6 metrics matter and which mislead: check the error rate first, read p95/p99 not the average, confirm the load profile, and compare to a baseline.