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What does the web response test mean?
Just like with a phone, a TV, a router, etc., a reboot can often solve problems and make a device run more smoothly, but no, it's not something that needs to be done on a regular basis.
The test measures the ability of your system to display a "fixed size" web page in a reasonable amount of time. I'm not an expert, but in my opinion the test isn't very helpful, because the pages you pull up when browsing all vary quite a bit in size. The test is probably helpful if it loads up the fixed size page very slowly, but otherwise, it's probably not very helpful at all.
If you're seeing slow response, you may want to run a test using Testmy.net. Create a free account there so you can keep a record of your tests, and use the manual setting. Sizes should be 25MB to test downloads and 4MB to test uploads.
The reps on this site only accept tests from Testmy.net, so you may want to restrict your testing to that site.
Keep in mind a million things can impact your browsing speed, and many of those things are beyond our control. There are things you can do like get an ad blocker, so you will limit a bit the amount of data that the site downloads, but there are still a lot of things that slow down the works, especially during prime time.
