---
title: client.socket.ploss
summary: null
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/vcl/variables/client-connection/client-socket-ploss
---

**Type:** FLOAT  
**Access:** read-only

**Available in:** recv, deliver, log, error

An estimate of packet loss associated with the current client-side connection. 
The metric is the ratio of sent packets that contain some retransmitted data to 
the number of sent data packets. This yields a number between 0 and 1 with 0 
meaning no loss.