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Free Developer Latency & Response Time Survey Template

Benchmark acceptable response times and tail-latency sensitivity by use case. Set SLOs, justify SLAs, and prioritize performance developers care about.

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Sample Survey Items

Q1
Chat Message
Welcome! This brief survey (≈5–7 minutes) asks about your workloads, latency targets, and trade-offs. Please answer based on your experience over the last 30 days.
Q2
Multiple Choice
Which languages/platforms did you actively use in the last 30 days? (Select all that apply)
  • JavaScript/Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • Go
  • Rust
  • .NET/C
  • Ruby
  • Kotlin
  • Swift
  • C/C++
  • Other
Q3
Multiple Choice
Which use cases are most relevant to your current work? (Select all that apply)
  • User-facing web API
  • Interactive UI actions
  • Search/query
  • Payments/auth/checkout
  • Online ML inference
  • Batch ML/offline scoring
  • Streaming/real-time feeds
  • Data pipelines/ETL
  • Background jobs
  • Build/test/dev tooling
Q4
Opinion Scale
How latency-sensitive are your primary workloads overall?
Range: 1 – 10
Min: Not at allMid: ModerateMax: Crucial
Q5
Dropdown
For user-facing requests, what is an acceptable median (p50) latency?
  • <20 ms
  • 20–50 ms
  • 50–100 ms
  • 100–200 ms
  • 200–500 ms
  • 0.5–1 s
  • >1 s
Q6
Dropdown
For user-facing requests, what is an acceptable p95 latency?
  • <50 ms
  • 50–100 ms
  • 100–250 ms
  • 250–500 ms
  • 500 ms–1 s
  • 1–2 s
  • >2 s
Q7
Rating
How important is reducing tail latency (p95/p99) relative to average latency?
Scale: 10 (star)
Min: Average more importantMax: Tail more important
Q8
Numeric
What p95 latency do you typically observe for your primary endpoint? (ms, last 30 days)
Accepts a numeric value
Whole numbers only
Q9
Numeric
What is your default timeout for external calls? (ms)
Accepts a numeric value
Whole numbers only
Q10
Multiple Choice
Attention check: To confirm you are paying attention, please select “I agree.”
  • I agree
  • I disagree
Q11
Opinion Scale
How acceptable are occasional latency spikes if the median meets target?
Range: 1 – 10
Min: Not acceptableMid: SometimesMax: Acceptable
Q12
Ranking
Rank your go-to strategies when latency threatens your SLA/SLO (1 = top priority).
Drag to order (top = most important)
  1. Degrade non-critical features
  2. Cache more aggressively
  3. Precompute/batch work
  4. Parallelize/partition
  5. Return partial results
  6. Scale up/out resources
  7. Fail fast + retry/backoff
Q13
Matrix
Select the maximum acceptable end-to-end latency for each operation type.
Rows<50 ms50–100 ms100–250 ms250–500 ms500 ms–1 s>1 s
Interactive click → response••••••
Search query results••••••
Payment authorization••••••
Online ML inference••••••
Background job step••••••
Streaming chunk delivery••••••
Build/test step••••••
Q14
Constant Sum
Allocate 100 points across the following to reflect your priorities for a latency-sensitive workload.
Total must equal 100
  • Median latency (p50)
  • Tail latency (p95/p99)
  • Availability/reliability
  • Cost efficiency
  • Throughput
  • Feature completeness
  • Developer productivity
Min per option: 0Whole numbers only
Q15
Dropdown
Above what latency do interactive actions start to feel slow to users?
  • 100 ms
  • 200 ms
  • 300 ms
  • 500 ms
  • 800 ms
  • 1 s
  • >1 s
Q16
Multiple Choice
What best describes your current role?
  • Backend engineer
  • Frontend/web engineer
  • Full-stack engineer
  • Mobile engineer
  • ML/AI engineer
  • SRE/DevOps
  • Data engineer
  • Engineering manager
  • Other
Q17
Dropdown
How many years of professional software development experience do you have?
  • <1
  • 1–2
  • 3–5
  • 6–9
  • 10–14
  • 15+
Q18
Dropdown
Approximately how large is your organization?
  • 1 (just me)
  • 2–10
  • 11–50
  • 51–200
  • 201–1,000
  • 1,001–5,000
  • >5,000
Q19
Dropdown
Where are you primarily located?
  • North America
  • Latin America
  • Europe
  • Middle East
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Oceania
Q20
Long Text
Anything else about acceptable latency, tail behavior, or how latency shapes your designs?
Max 600 chars
Q21
AI Interview
AI Interview: 2 Follow-up Questions on latency and trade-offs
AI InterviewLength: 2Personality: Expert InterviewerMode: Fast
Q22
Chat Message
Thank you for participating! Your responses help us improve developer experiences around latency.

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