Faster Downloads
If you happen to notice your website loading a bit faster than before, that’s because it is!
Late last week, we introduced a new “global content delivery system”, which means images download fast no matter what part of the world your visitor is located.
Typically, the farther from a server you are, the slower the website feels. But what we’ve done is put your files on over 200 servers located all around the world, so no matter where someone views your website, it will download quickly, from a server located nearby.
In California, we see a speed increase of about 21%, which works out to about a second faster on most image gallery pages, but places like New York, Europe and Australia should see even better results.
Here’s a look at just how much faster our servers respond to requests from different parts of the world:
- California: 52ms to 10ms lag (81% Improvement)
- New York: 224ms to 10ms lag (96% Improvement)
- London: 95ms to 11ms lag (88% Improvement)
- Munich, Germany: 137ms to 6ms lag (96% Improvement)
- Sao Paulo, Brazil: 261ms to 114ms lag (56% Improvement)
- Israel: 178ms to 73ms lag (59% Improvement)
- Sydney, Australia: 209ms to 1ms lag (99% Improvement)
- South Africa: 261ms to 178ms lag (32% Improvement)
- Netherlands: 247ms to 2ms lag (99% Improvement)
- Singapore: 106ms to 1ms lag (99% Improvement)