CDN impact React sites

Time to first byte by CDN provider, measured in real-user Chrome data.

Field data PhoneDesktopAll Scope All sites October 2026 edition · Desktop field outcomes · React sites only
Metric TTFB LCP FCP
React Scoped to 9,570 sites out of 210,902 analyzed (frameworks) Compare with all sites →
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At a glance the headline numbers for CDN impact

Time to first byte by CDN provider, measured in real-user Chrome data.

11
Providers ranked
After min-sites filter
26,752
Sites in sample
Combined across all items
1.9s
Best LCP (p75)
Google Cloud CDN
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · React sites (9,570) · desktop field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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The ranking sorted by LCP at p75, fastest first

# Provider LCP p75 Passing Sites
1 Google Cloud CDN 1.9s 86.9%
6,456
2 Vercel Edge 2.1s 76.7%
93
3 CloudFront 2.2s 81.1%
7,234
4 Fastly 2.2s 79.8%
7,837
5 Akamai 2.3s 76.9%
223
6 jsDelivr 2.4s 75.4%
281
7 Cloudflare 2.5s 74.9%
3,558
8 Bunny CDN 2.6s 72.9%
366
9 Netlify Edge 2.7s 66.7%
79
10 cdnjs 3.0s 65.7%
386
11 unpkg 3.0s 66.3%
239
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Passing LCP per CDN which group passes the LCP most often

CDNSitesPassing LCPp75
Google Cloud CDN 67.5% 6,456 87% 1.9s
Azure CDN 0.3% 32 86% 2.2s
CloudFront 75.6% 7,234 81% 2.2s
Fastly 81.9% 7,837 80% 2.2s
KeyCDN 0.3% 24 78% 2.1s
Akamai 2.3% 223 77% 2.3s
Vercel Edge 1% 93 77% 2.1s
jsDelivr 2.9% 281 75% 2.4s
Imperva/Incapsula 0.2% 15 75% 2.1s
Cloudflare 37.2% 3,558 75% 2.5s
Bunny CDN 3.8% 366 73% 2.6s
Netlify Edge 0.8% 79 67% 2.7s
unpkg 2.5% 239 66% 3.0s
cdnjs 4% 386 66% 3.0s
Good Needs Improvement Poor Sorted best-passing first · median colored by its own rating · pass = good LCP (2.5s at p75) · one value per site

87% of Google Cloud CDN sites pass LCP. Cdnjs trails 21 points behind, leaving 34% of its sites failing. computed

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All five vitals at once the whole category without toggling - cell is the pass rate, small number the p75

LCP
INP
CLS
FCP
TTFB
Fastly 81.9%
802.2s
9967ms
810.07
781.6s
561.4s
CloudFront 75.6%
812.2s
9966ms
830.06
801.5s
581.4s
Google Cloud CDN 67.5%
871.9s
10061ms
890.03
861.1s
651.2s
Cloudflare 37.2%
752.5s
9974ms
730.12
712.0s
471.7s
cdnjs 4%
663.0s
9978ms
660.16
582.3s
421.9s
Bunny CDN 3.8%
732.6s
9881ms
640.18
672.1s
461.7s
jsDelivr 2.9%
752.4s
9878ms
620.19
652.0s
451.6s
unpkg 2.5%
663.0s
10068ms
630.16
552.5s
342.0s
Akamai 2.3%
772.3s
9984ms
680.17
731.8s
521.4s
Vercel Edge 1%
772.1s
9690ms
710.15
741.8s
671.3s
Netlify Edge 0.8%
672.7s
10086ms
670.14
672.3s
501.8s
Azure CDN 0.3%
862.2s
10070ms
800.09
671.8s
501.4s
KeyCDN 0.3%
782.1s
10068ms
330.24
891.7s
71893ms
Imperva/Incapsula 0.2%
752.1s
10064ms
750.11
1001.3s
501.2s
60%95%+ passing Cell: pass rate, small number = p75 · faded rows: under 100 sites

One row per CDN, one column per vital - the cell is the share of sites passing, the small number the p75. No toggling needed to see where the category actually differs.

Google Cloud CDN leads on LCP: 87% of its sites pass. unpkg trails at 66%. computed

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · React sites (9,570) · desktop field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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