Web server bandwidth affecting page delivery times

There are many factors affecting it. Let's say, there is a bottleneck elsewhere, say, client's Internet connection. Then the server performance may not affect the overall throughput much...

Timing in a network is not a trivial thing. Again, what do you want to achieve of figure out?

—SA

There are two things: 1) network timing analysis is extremely complicated thing, 2) you don't have enough levers to improve things.

For the first item: let's say you even have a very robust model of the network representing the part of Internet affecting throughput in case of your servers and clients. Even in this case, timing calculations, such as throughput prediction, would be extremely difficult task.

Second thing, what can you do? Do you have enough levers to improve anything? Not many, I think. You can only improve operation on the server side, or reduce traffic by removing inefficient activity from the client side. You mention that you match the bandwidth using Azure. I just don't understand, match what with what? Shouldn't your goal be to make processing just as fast as possible in all aspects where you can affect it. Of course, I understand that your knowledge of the bandwidth and all the effects of all factors on overall throughput can be helpful in optimization, as in the case with profiling -- then you could concentrate on bottleneck parts more...

—SA