CDN impact WordPress sites

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

Field data PhoneDesktopAll Scope All sites October 2026 edition · Phone field outcomes · WordPress sites only
Metric TTFB LCP FCP
WordPress Scoped to 63,295 sites out of 203,892 analyzed (cms) 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.

15
Providers ranked
After min-sites filter
86,899
Sites in sample
Combined across all items
1.5s
Best TTFB (p75)
Imperva/Incapsula
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The ranking sorted by TTFB at p75, fastest first

# Provider TTFB p75 Passing Sites
1 Imperva/Incapsula 1.5s 44.4%
65
2 jsDelivr 1.8s 30.2%
3,345
3 Fastly 1.8s 31.2%
23,146
4 Akamai 1.8s 30.5%
2,240
5 Cloudflare 1.9s 31.2%
26,661
6 Google Cloud CDN 1.9s 32.1%
4,408
7 Bunny CDN 1.9s 30.4%
5,227
8 CloudFront 1.9s 29.5%
13,885
9 cdnjs 1.9s 30.1%
4,956
10 Azure CDN 2.0s 30.7%
109
11 Vercel Edge 2.0s 34.0%
322
12 unpkg 2.0s 24.0%
1,999
13 Sucuri 2.1s 19.4%
96
14 Netlify Edge 2.2s 25.0%
165
15 KeyCDN 2.3s 18.7%
275
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Passing TTFB per CDN which group passes the TTFB most often

CDNSitesPassing TTFBp75
Imperva/Incapsula 0.1% 65 44% 1.5s
Vercel Edge 0.5% 322 34% 2.0s
Google Cloud CDN 7% 4,408 32% 1.9s
Cloudflare 42.1% 26,661 31% 1.9s
Fastly 36.6% 23,146 31% 1.8s
Azure CDN 0.2% 109 31% 2.0s
Akamai 3.5% 2,240 31% 1.8s
Bunny CDN 8.3% 5,227 30% 1.9s
jsDelivr 5.3% 3,345 30% 1.8s
cdnjs 7.8% 4,956 30% 1.9s
CloudFront 21.9% 13,885 30% 1.9s
Netlify Edge 0.3% 165 25% 2.2s
unpkg 3.2% 1,999 24% 2.0s
Sucuri 0.2% 96 19% 2.1s
KeyCDN 0.4% 275 19% 2.3s
Good Needs Improvement Poor Sorted best-passing first · median colored by its own rating · pass = good TTFB (800ms at p75) · one value per site

34% of Vercel Edge sites pass TTFB. KeyCDN trails 15 points behind, leaving 81% 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
Cloudflare 42.1%
672.8s
96127ms
890.02
552.4s
311.9s
Fastly 36.6%
672.8s
95129ms
870.03
562.4s
311.8s
CloudFront 21.9%
652.9s
95134ms
860.04
532.4s
301.9s
Bunny CDN 8.3%
662.9s
96125ms
890.02
552.4s
301.9s
cdnjs 7.8%
642.9s
97127ms
880.02
532.5s
301.9s
Google Cloud CDN 7%
652.9s
94138ms
860.04
552.5s
321.9s
jsDelivr 5.3%
692.7s
96128ms
890.02
582.3s
301.8s
Akamai 3.5%
662.8s
97126ms
880.02
562.3s
311.8s
unpkg 3.2%
632.9s
94134ms
880.02
492.6s
242.0s
Vercel Edge 0.5%
643.0s
94141ms
780.07
552.5s
342.0s
KeyCDN 0.4%
543.2s
100116ms
890.02
422.8s
192.3s
Netlify Edge 0.3%
622.9s
94137ms
780.10
512.6s
252.2s
Azure CDN 0.2%
662.8s
87157ms
960.01
522.6s
312.0s
Sucuri 0.2%
623.1s
100122ms
890.03
442.8s
192.1s
Imperva/Incapsula 0.1%
802.3s
97129ms
900.06
701.9s
441.5s
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.

Vercel Edge leads on TTFB: 34% of its sites pass. KeyCDN trails at 19%. computed

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