| It kinda depends. You'd have to test it yourself. Here's CloudFlare's home page accessed from Europe a few moments ago, via 3G dongle. http://s21.postimg.org/8gn6f7i2f/cloudflare_com.png Nothing to write home about :) That being said, I've seen CloudFlare cutting down DNS lookup from 800ms to 60ms for a tiny website. Another thing is that it depends if you're really concerned with visitors far from your server. I had some WordPress websites hosted in LA and with some really basic optimization page speed was almost as good as Google's home page. Don't drink the paint, I guess :) It may not be worth it, it may be great. Test it. Of course, CF has other benefits too, it's not just about the page speed. Don't get me wrong. I'm not claiming anything here. It's just a quick rant and a screenshot. Don't take it too seriously. Other than that, it is becoming somewhat concerning just how much traffic goes through CloudFlare. Nothing against you CF guys. Just good ol' paranoia :) EDIT:
For most places CloudFlare does a great, well, amazing job and keeps the page speed down to <1s, often <500ms. But again, it really depends where your visitor are. Check the History tab here http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/blmbP5/http://cloudflare.com |
