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TCP performance gets quite poor over long distances. CDNs are very helpful if you're trying to make your site work well far away from your servers.




I think the bottleneck is rarely CDN. Think about it - my server sits in Germany. My target audience is in the US. My latency to the west coast is 150ms. I can see it being a big thing in competitive online game, but for website load performance it's less than the blink of an eye. The real bottleneck is usually poorly configured page or some bloated JS.



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