lastetid

Lastetid is a term used primarily in Scandinavian tech contexts to denote the time required for a system to complete a loading operation. In computing and web performance, lastetid describes the interval between the initiation of a request and the point at which the requested resource is ready for interaction. The concept is analogous to load time or startup latency in other parlance, but the term is not part of major international standards and its exact definition can vary across organizations.

Origin and usage: The word is formed from Norwegian/Danish roots last (to load) and tid (time). It appears in technical documentation, performance reports, and educational materials in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, where practitioners use it to discuss user-perceived delays.

Applications: In web development, lastetid can refer to the time from the user clicking a link to the page becoming interactive. In applications, it can denote the startup time of a program or the time to initialize a subsystem after startup. In data processing, it may denote the time taken to load data into memory.

Measurement and interpretation: Lastetid is typically measured with timestamps or profiling tools that capture request start and resource ready events. It is influenced by network latency, server performance, resource size, and client device speed. Like other load-time metrics, lower lastetid is generally better, but trade-offs with caching and preloading must be considered.

See also: page load time, startup time, latency, time to first byte.