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title: Performance & Timeout
slug: fourkites-api-reference/eyoi-performance-and-timeout
description: Learn how to optimize your API's performance and avoid timeouts with this helpful document. Discover why setting the response timeout to 30 seconds and implementing a retry mechanism with exponential back-off is crucial. Don't let concurrent users, load v
createdAt: 2023-04-14T07:00:07.000Z
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The average response time for the API is in the order of **milliseconds**. However, There could be multiple reasons that might affect the performance including concurrent users, load volume and network issues.

The **timeout** for the response is advised to be set at **30 seconds** with retry mechanism with exponenential back-off.