Response
Response may refer to any of the following:
1. In general, a response is a reaction from a person or thing. This response could be in the form of a gesture, verbally, written, or another form of communication.
2. When discussing a user or visitor utilizing a computer or website, a user response is the reply they give to a prompt. For example, when you delete a file, you may be asked if you're sure you want to delete the file before it's deleted. The reply of "Yes" or "No" is the user's response that it's ok to delete the file.
3. On a computer network, a response is the signal or data sent as the reply to a request from another computer. For example, when you viewed this web page, your web browser sent a request to the Computer Hope web server. The web server response was the web page, which consists of HTML (hypertext markup language), JavaScript, CSS (cascading style sheets), and images. Similarly, if you request a file from an FTP server, the server response may be the file's data, or an error message if the file does not exist.
4. With time or measurement, a response time is the time it takes for a response to happen. See our response time page for further information.