The following factors can also impact the application performance:
- Hardware architecture and operating system
- Amount of memory and Swap/Virtual Memory configurations
- Anti-virus software
- Amount of I/O being performed by other applications running on the servers
- Network interfaces (number of NICs, speed and duplex settings)
- Network throughput (for example, the time it takes to download a 5 K file between the application server and the browser)
- Network bandwidth consumed by other applications
- Network hops, latency between the browser and the application server
- Amount of memory available on the client for the browser