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I have some clients that use Cloudflare, and others that use CloudFront. All of the CloudFront sites perform far better than all of the Cloudflare sites.

I don't care how many points of presence Cloudflare has if the performance is worse.

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> I don't care how many points of presence Cloudflare has if the performance is worse.

Do you have any data that supports your claims?

As I stated, they are client websites, which I don't particularly feel like disclosing. It's trivially easy to find benchmarks. [1] is old, but it gives you an idea of the stark differences that I have seen in practice.

[1] https://goldfirestudios.com/cdn-benchmarks-cloudflare-vs-clo...

[2] https://www.bizety.com/2018/05/01/network-performance-benchm...

Just curious, what metrics?

TTFB and total load time

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