2026 Birthday week: network performance update

Cloudflare reports that it was the fastest provider by TCP connection time in 74% of the world’s 1,000 largest networks in August 2026, rising from 60% in April and gaining leadership in 150 additional networks and 38 more countries. Its rankings use APNIC-estimated network populations and a trimean calculation of real-user TCP handshake times, measured through browser requests to Cloudflare and competitors including Amazon CloudFront, Google, Fastly, and Akamai. Alongside its longstanding error-page measurements, Cloudflare has introduced limited background testing on free Challenge Pages delivered through Turnstile, aiming to expand data coverage across more users, networks, and geographies without noticeable latency or added user interaction. The company says the larger dataset improves statistical confidence and ranking stability where providers differ by only milliseconds, while supporting future analyses weighted by users or grouped across countries and global traffic.

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