Are External Services Slowing You Down? New Relic Infographic Reveals the Fastest and Most Popular External APIs
Did you know that New Relic’s App Map feature can display all of the external services and third-party APIs used within your application? This information is invaluable as more and more applications leverage the data and services provided by social networks, cloud service providers, and payment services.
With that in mind, we decided to take a look at the most popular third-party APIs used by the 200,000+ applications New Relic monitors. We also took a look at which of these APIs performed the best. So, drumroll please… I present the top APIs:
If you haven’t seen it yet, App Map automatically discovers and maps all of the connected components and services that make up your application. The interface is really elegant (even for apps with hundreds of connected services) and provides an immediate snapshot into the performance of each service – all on one page.
Frankly, if you’re going to monitor the performance of your application – you need all the facts. Knowing if any external services are slowing your app down is critical. Check it out and see how third-party APIs affect your application’s performance.
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What about Google+ API? In my tests it’s the slowest. It takes more than one second of difference of loading the page on end user view when a webpage have the G+ button. Unacceptable!
Posted: 23 December 2011 at 4:18 am by André Lima e Silva
With out a doubt, PayPal’s entire infrastructure is the slowest. Their API is pitiful, which isn’t all that surprising if you’ve ever tried to use their website for anything.
Posted: 18 January 2012 at 11:06 am by Eric C.
Is it safe to assume these are back-end API’s and not front-end from the browser?
Also, are they averages or medians? Either way, even 400ms is an awfully long time to hold up your application for a back-end call out to an API.
Posted: 19 January 2012 at 8:07 am by Patrick Meenan
I would be interested to see how the AdWords API performs. In my experience it has been jumpy in the least…
Posted: 19 January 2012 at 9:01 am by Chris Reilly
Paypal sucks overall and in general as a company and as a service. There is absolutely no way I will ever do business with them again.
Posted: 19 January 2012 at 9:21 am by Mike
The Facebook API uptime numbers are bogus. This is assuming any response from a simple call, not valid response to any call. Any developer with 50 or more test accounts on an app can tell you you need to request the test account list three times before getting anything. It’s a fscking terrible API from both consistency and reliability standpoints.
Posted: 19 January 2012 at 12:54 pm by Alice Bevan-McGregor
Fair enough response time, since paypal is in payment gateway industry, obviously it should be doing lot more work then facebook/twitter api’s.
Posted: 19 January 2012 at 4:34 pm by Kiran