I’d often take the opposite approach (and have done with consulting clients) Slap the CDN on the site and then chase down the slow server responses It deliver

I’d often take the opposite approach (and have done with consulting clients) Slap the CDN on the site and then chase down the slow server responses It delivers an improved experience for the people using the site sooner than optimizing the site first The challenge of course is you then have to persuade people to go chase down the slow responses when they may response “there’s so few why should I care?”