title: Does JMeter show the correct average response time for the first page it hits for many virtual users?
body: <p>I'm load testing a system with 500 virtual users. I've kept the "Ramp-Up period (in seconds)" option to zero. So, what I understand, JMeter will hit the system with 500 virtual users all at the same time. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.</p>
  
  <p>Now, the summary report shows the average response time for the first page is ~100 seconds!. Which is more than a minute and a half of wait time. But while the JMeter is running, I manually went to the same page/url using a browser and didn't have to wait for that long. It was not even close, the page response was almost immediate for me.</p>
  
  <p>My question is: is there any known issue for the average response time of the first page? Is it JMeter which is taking long to trigger that many users?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.
  --Ishtiaque</p>