diff --git a/cmd/handler-utils.go b/cmd/handler-utils.go
index 174c55a15..bf3f6628b 100644
--- a/cmd/handler-utils.go
+++ b/cmd/handler-utils.go
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import (
 	"net/url"
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
-	"time"
 
 	xhttp "github.com/minio/minio/cmd/http"
 	"github.com/minio/minio/cmd/logger"
@@ -379,12 +378,7 @@ func collectAPIStats(api string, f http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
 
 		f.ServeHTTP(statsWriter, r)
 
-		// Time duration in secs since the call started.
-		// We don't need to do nanosecond precision in this
-		// simply for the fact that it is not human readable.
-		durationSecs := time.Since(statsWriter.StartTime).Seconds()
-
-		globalHTTPStats.updateStats(api, r, statsWriter, durationSecs)
+		globalHTTPStats.updateStats(api, r, statsWriter)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/cmd/http-stats.go b/cmd/http-stats.go
index ec88f2822..d4535c1ed 100644
--- a/cmd/http-stats.go
+++ b/cmd/http-stats.go
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ func (st *HTTPStats) toServerHTTPStats() ServerHTTPStats {
 }
 
 // Update statistics from http request and response data
-func (st *HTTPStats) updateStats(api string, r *http.Request, w *logger.ResponseWriter, durationSecs float64) {
+func (st *HTTPStats) updateStats(api string, r *http.Request, w *logger.ResponseWriter) {
 	// A successful request has a 2xx response code
 	successReq := (w.StatusCode >= 200 && w.StatusCode < 300)
 
@@ -172,10 +172,8 @@ func (st *HTTPStats) updateStats(api string, r *http.Request, w *logger.Response
 		}
 	}
 
-	if r.Method == http.MethodGet {
-		// Increment the prometheus http request response histogram with appropriate label
-		httpRequestsDuration.With(prometheus.Labels{"api": api}).Observe(durationSecs)
-	}
+	// Increment the prometheus http request response histogram with appropriate label
+	httpRequestsDuration.With(prometheus.Labels{"api": api}).Observe(w.TimeToFirstByte.Seconds())
 }
 
 // Prepare new HTTPStats structure