How does Cloudflare affect my website speed?

Mujkanovic · Dec 21, 2017

All my websites are using Cloudflare and they are running on a good hosting but I don't know actual website speed is from my hosting or Cloudflare. Can anyone tell me how does Cloudflare affect my website speed? or its just optimize website to have better speed from my hosting provider?

VirtuBox · Dec 21, 2017

Hello @Mujkanovic,

I have tried to compare websites speed with/without cloudflare, and there are too many factors like :

1) website traffic : more visits = more assets in Cloudflare cache
2) visitor location : my websites are faster without cloudflare in France, but in some locations it's not true
3) cloudflare configuration & pages rules : you need to set a proper configuration to get benefits from Cloudflare

Then the last point is, if a website is slow, cloudflare will not make it loading blazing fast.

Mujkanovic · Dec 21, 2017

@VirtuBox

So, for a normal host, Cloudflare will help to boost website speed?
For a fast host, Cloudflare will help to make website has better speed or decrease speed of a website?

WebHostingUK · Dec 21, 2017

Yes Cloudflare just caches your website so it helps with your site loading speed, its also good to optimize your website before you add cloudflare so you know generally your website speed.

Try with and without Cloudflare using website speed testing around the world using the following link https://www.dotcom-tools.com/website-speed-test.aspx

VirtuBox · Dec 21, 2017

Cloudflare doesn't provide only a CDN services, there are several other features (SSL, anti DDoS etc..). So if you use them, it's probably better to keep Cloudflare.

I do not use it anymore on my websites, and I have better speed without Cloudflare (with a custom Nginx configuration and a lot of optimization).
But I'm not able to tell you it will be the same for you.

If I do not use the CDN anymore, I still use the DNS service.

VirtuBox · Dec 22, 2017

You can disable Cloudflare CDN by clicking on the "orange cloud"

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