Network performance update: Developer Week 2025
2025-04-09
Cloudflare has been tracking and comparing our speed with other top networks since 2021. Let’s take a look at how things have changed since our last update....
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Network performance update: Birthday Week 2024
2024-09-23
Since June 2021, we’ve been measuring and ranking our network performance against the top global networks in the world. We use this data to improve our performance, and to share the results of those initiatives. In this post, we’re going to share with you how network performance has changed since our last post in March 2024, and discuss the tools and processes we are using to assess network performance. ...
Network performance update: Security Week 2024
2024-03-08
Cloudflare is the fastest provider in 44% of networks around the world for 95th percentile connection time. Let’s dig into the data and talk about how we do it...
Network performance update: Birthday Week 2023
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In this post we are going to share the most recent updates since our last post in June, and tell you about our tools and processes that we use to monitor and improve our network performance...
Network performance update: Speed Week 2023
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In this post we are going to share the most recent updates, and tell you about our tools and processes that we use to monitor and improve our network performance....
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