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July 19, 2020

Fast or slow?

Topic: Admin   Tags: Cloudflare, FastOrSlow, Performance

This site hasn’t been set-up long. I’ve been busy with work, there’s been Covid, and a few other life’s hassles, the sort we all have to contend with, from time to time.

Subsequently, my blog development has taken a back seat (like… 3rd row if you have an SUV, or the best seats in the house if you ride the school bus). There’s still a lot to-do and more besides, not yet on that list.

But it’s good to see it’s performing well (i.e. responding quickly) even as a new blog with optimizations still to do, and, which also happens to have had exponentially more traffic today than I’d have liked.

Average Performance Metrics

Loading Speed Comparison – July 19, 2020 10:40 AM Central Time

Virginia is leading the way (sub half-a-second), followed by Ohio, then England (still an impressive 656 ms – go Blighty!).

Apologies if you’re in South Africa, Bahrain, or Singapore for the sluggishness (I’ll check the logs, but actually I don’t think there are any of you).

The site is behind Cloudflare and they have edge servers in over 200 cities now across 95 counties, serving my site(s) to you from their (Cloudflare’s) closest location to you.

Cloudflare’s data center map

So, currently, it’s fast enough… for now.

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