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by adambenayoun 5047 days ago
I assume you are the creator of cdnjs - what are your relation with cloudflare beyond just the sponsorship? Are you working for them? Do you advise them?

I'm wondering what is the performance increase delivered by cloudflare. I've heard many mixed opinions and I'm at the interesection where I have to decide whether I'm using them or others.

btw - kudos to Cloudflare for sponsoring this - seems like a great way to put yourself in front of developers.

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We have a very good relationship with Cloudflare. See these releases by Cloudflare:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/cdnjs-community-moderated-javascr... https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/cdnjs

As for Cloudflare's speed, you can see cdnjs's average ping time as measured by pingdom here: http://stats.pingdom.com/4jg86a2wqei0/362854

> As for Cloudflare's speed, you can see cdnjs's average ping time as measured by pingdom here: http://stats.pingdom.com/4jg86a2wqei0/362854

If I'm guessing what the names of your Pingdom checks mean correctly, they seem to show CloudFlare making your response time 10ms slower. I'm assuming that cdnjs.cloudflare.com is the site with CF in front, and cdnjs.com is without, not sure if that's correct.

Looking at the headers both are being served by CloudFlare. And cdnjs.cloudflare.com is being redirected to cdnjs.com. So, I suspect that that's where the extra time comes from.