Methods and systems for handling web requests with latency awareness are described herein. A system may receive a web request from a web client, and determine, based on an exponential moving average of past response times, whether to allow the web request to be sent out to the server. Based on this determination, the system may send the web request to the server. The system may receive a response to the web request and update the exponential moving average based on the response time associated with the received response. The response may be forwarded back to the web client.