--- title: 2026 Birthday week: network performance update | daily.dev description: Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks, up from 60% in April 2026. The improvement is attributed to a new... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/2026-birthday-week-network-performance-update-dosvkcjxy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 2026 Birthday week: network performance update | daily.dev og:description: Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks, up from 60% in April 2026. The improvement is attributed to a new... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/2026-birthday-week-network-performance-update-dosvkcjxy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/doSVKcJxY.png og:image:alt: 2026 Birthday week: network performance update og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 2026 Birthday week: network performance update **[Cloudflare](https://daily.dev/sources/cloudflare)** · 8 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks, up from 60% in April 2026. The improvement is attributed to a new measurement methodology that incorporates background telemetry from Cloudflare Challenge Pages (powered by Turnstile) alongside existing error-page measurements, expanding data volume and geographic diversity while preserving user privacy. Rankings are based on trimean TCP connection time across providers including Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Google, Fastly, and Akamai. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does Cloudflare measure which CDN provider is fastest on a given network? Cloudflare ranks providers using the trimean (a weighted average of the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles) of TCP connection times measured from real users' browsers. Measurements come from background telemetry on Cloudflare-branded error pages and, newly, Cloudflare Challenge Pages, comparing connection times to Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Google, Fastly, and Akamai across the 1,000 largest global networks ranked via APNIC population data. _Teams comparing CDN performance can follow methodology breakdowns like this one on daily.dev._ ### What percentage of top global networks is Cloudflare the fastest provider in? Cloudflare is the fastest provider in 74% of the 1,000 largest global networks as of August, up from 60% in April 2026. This reflects becoming the fastest in 150 additional networks and 38 additional countries, driven largely by a new measurement approach that adds telemetry from Cloudflare Challenge Pages to existing error-page data. _Developers tracking CDN performance benchmarks can keep up with updates like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Agents Week: network performance update](https://daily.dev/posts/agents-week-network-performance-update-q23bdp8rb) · Cloudflare · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Cloudflare Year in Review: AI Bots Crawl Aggressively, Post-Quantum Encryption Hits 50%, Go Doubles](https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-year-in-review-ai-bots-crawl-aggressively-post-quantum-encryption-hits-50-go-doubles-ibc0aje5i) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Everything we launched during Birthday Week 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/everything-we-launched-during-birthday-week-2026-sm83lwcfv) · Cloudflare · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [Top 1 Million Analysis – June 2026: Ten Years of Web Security](https://daily.dev/posts/top-1-million-analysis-june-2026-ten-years-of-web-security-kjo33f4wp) · Scott Helme · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#cloudflare](https://daily.dev/tags/cloudflare) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/2026-birthday-week-network-performance-update-dosvkcjxy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"2026 Birthday week: network performance update","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/2026-birthday-week-network-performance-update-dosvkcjxy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/2026-birthday-week-network-performance-update-dosvkcjxy"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T13:13:46.207Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T13:16:21.635Z","description":"Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks, up from 60% in April 2026. 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