Agents Week: network performance update

This post details Cloudflare's improvement in network performance, becoming the fastest provider in 60% of the top 1,000 networks globally by December 2025, up from 40% in early 2025. The improvements are attributed to both hardware expansion (new PoPs in Constantine, Algeria; Malang, Indonesia; and Wroclaw, Poland) and software optimizations. Software improvements include leveraging protocols like HTTP/3, refining congestion window management, and optimizing the efficiency of connection handling, SSL/TLS termination, and traffic management software. The post also elaborates on the methodology for measuring network performance using connection time and the trimean of Real User Measurements (RUM) data.