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Latency is still a factor. For any reasonably popular page with cloudflare in front of it, static files will be at the local edge. Requesting websites hosted in
by dx034 9y ago
Latency is still a factor. For any reasonably popular page with cloudflare in front of it, static files will be at the local edge. Requesting websites hosted in US-West from Europe is ~200ms latency, responses from the cloudflare edge here (London) usually have 20-30ms (TTFB). That can be a big difference, esp if you have spotty reception. If your users are all over the world this becomes even more important.
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y agoOK, but we're talking about hosting only a part of the website content on the CDN here. In this case - fonts. We can - and should - use the default font to render the text until the webfont has been completely loaded, using one of the available techniques. Unfortunately, even some high profile websites ignore this issue and block displaying the text until the font is loaded.