---
title: PerformanceServerTiming.description
slug: Web/API/PerformanceServerTiming/description
tags:
  - API
  - Property
  - Reference
  - ServerTiming
browser-compat: api.PerformanceServerTiming.description
---
{{APIRef("Resource Timing API")}}

The **`description`** read-only property returns a
{{domxref("DOMString")}} value of the server-specified metric description, or an empty
string.

## Syntax

```js
serverTiming.description;
```

## Specifications

{{Specifications}}

## Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

## See also

- {{domxref("PerformanceServerTiming")}}
- {{HTTPHeader("Server-Timing")}}
