Railgun in the real world: faster web page load times

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This post introduces real-world performance data for Cloudflare's Railgun technology, demonstrating its effectiveness in speeding up the delivery of non-cached HTML pages. It details performance tests conducted with a hosting partner (Vexxhost) across 51 websites, measuring HTML delivery speedup, compression ratios, and overall page load time changes. The results show median improvements in HTML delivery speed (1.43x), TTFB (to 90% of original), and page load time (to 89% of original). The post also provides an estimation formula for predicting Railgun's impact based on initial HTML size and load time.