CDNs can almost always serve assets faster than the origin can. Because PoPs are closer and transfer speed ramp rate scales to latency, the further away a serv

CDNs can almost always serve assets faster than the origin can. Because PoPs are closer and transfer speed ramp rate scales to latency, the further away a server is, the longer it takes the download to ramp up to full speed. This is especially relevant when talking about smaller resources like javascript, css, and small or optimized images, and webfonts.