PayPal sandbox requests are slow, are the live site requests faster?

Question

This site http://api-status.com/6404/117324 is currently reporting a sandbox HTTP response at 1.8 seconds. At this rate I'm quite worried that after doing any more than 2 PayPal requests that my client connection may timeout (I've had to change my timeouts in order to test). Is the live site any faster?

Is there a similar performance reporting site for the live site/requests?

I've seen plenty of posts referencing their twitter account but it doesn't seem to have any useful info for developers.

Answer 1

The PayPal sandbox is for functional testing only. Load testing and latency testing that mirrors live is not available.

(The PayPal live site is a discreetly separate environment, run on different cloud servers, with different capacity considerations)

In any case, PayPal checkout and transaction requests are executed in parallel, so cumulative delays from PayPal API endpoints will never be an issue unless you are specifically waiting for responses and running everything in series/synchronously.