Is ping timeout meaningful for Google SEO?

[Andiamo]

I'm working with a client's website that seems to have some technical issues. One of the tests that I conducted was a ping (using Mac terminal), and the request kept on timing out.
Is this meaningful from an SEO standpoint? The homepage ranked as "average" in Google's pagespeed test.

[keyplyr]

The only thing "meaningful" to Google is how Googlebot crawls the pages and accompanying files.

Your ping test measures performance times from your machine to the target machine, through all points between. There was probably an issues somewhere in that path.

Google isn't traveling those points. It crawls links from other sites or it performs vertical requests from its server.

As far as scoring an average with Google Pagespeed, just work on the issues in the report: image size, caching, compression, render blocking scripts, etc.

[ipco]

As keyplyr said, there is an issue in the path between your computer and the website server.

If you really need to know, instead of pinging, do a traceroute or tracert if you're on Windows. This will tell you where the link is failing. This is usually an ISP/Telcom fault but it could actually be on the remote site eg. between router and server.