
4/17/2026 · Lai Yi Ohlsen
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This post details Cloudflare's network performance improvements, showing an increase from being the fastest network in 40% to 60% of the top 1,000 networks globally by December 2025. It explains the methodology for measuring performance using connection time and Real User Measurements (RUM), and highlights that improvements are due to both new point-of-presence deployments and software optimizations in connection handling, HTTP/3, and congestion window management. The post also provides specific data on improvements in countries like the United States and details the average latency reduction compared to competitors.