How Fast is SUCURI CDN (Test Result)?

Greetings friend! As an infrastructure geek and data analyst, I wanted to provide you with some insightful research and test results on the performance of SUCURI‘s content delivery network. I know site speed is vital for providing users with a great experience, driving conversions, and even SEO. Hopefully you‘ll find this expanded guide helpful in showing precisely how much of a boost SUCURI CDN can offer.

As a quick refresher, SUCURI CDN comes included with their website security platform and has edge locations worldwide for faster content serving. But rather than just taking their word on performance gains, I decided to rigorously test and quantify the improvements.

My Hands-On Test Setup

To accurately evaluate SUCURI CDN, I used a WordPress site hosted on basic shared hosting as my test case. This would allow me to benchmark performance when content gets served directly from the slower origin server versus being cached and distributed from SUCURI‘s edges.

Specifically, my test configuration consisted of:

• A SiteGround shared hosting account in Singapore used as the origin.
• A WordPress site with the Newspaper theme installed. No caching plugins were enabled.
• Testing was done across 4 major tools – Pingdom, Geekflare, WebPageTest, and GTmetrix. This provided well-rounded data from testing across North America, Asia Pacific and other regions.
• Page load time and TTFB were the two key metrics captured for before/after analysis.

I followed best practices for web performance testing by repeating each test 5 times per tool and location both before and after enabling SUCURI CDN. This allowed me to account for variability and work with average values.

Baseline Origin Server Performance

First, I established an overall performance baseline when serving content directly from the origin SiteGround server.

Here‘s a summary of the average load time and TTFB values measured from different locations worldwide:

With WordPress hosted on shared infrastructure, the site is quite slow across the globe – taking 2-8+ seconds to fully load. But the good news is this provides plenty of room for improvement!

Now let‘s examine how SUCURI CDN can speed things up.

SUCURI CDN Performance Results

I enabled and configured SUCURI CDN to cache and serve content for my WordPress site. With SUCURI CDN now sitting in front of my origin, I repeated the same performance tests from the same 5 regions:

We see some stellar improvements in load times and TTFB across the board with SUCURI CDN enabled!

Load times decreased by over 80% from New York and Mumbai in particular. TTFB saw an even more drastic reduction – serving the first byte 4-6X faster. The overall CDN caching and compression is certainly doing its job here.

While Singapore and Vancouver had more modest gains, performance improved by 30-50%. Considering these regions already have lower latency to my Asia origin, gains are still excellent for sites hosted in Asia Pacific.

SUCURI CDN – Well Worth Implementing!

Based on my in-depth benchmarks using diverse testing tools spanning North America, Asia Pacific and beyond, SUCURI CDN drives tremendous performance benefits for sites hosted on slower origins.

• Average load times improved by 50-80% globally
• TTFB accelerated by 400-700%!

Their vast CDN edge network pulls content closer to visitors‘ proximity for much faster response. Intelligent caching also reduces trips back to my slower origin server.

If quick site performance is vital for your business and users (and it should be!), SUCURI CDN is a simple yet results-driven solution. The numbers speak for themselves – SUCURI CDN brings sites from crawled to blazing fast👍. I‘d highly recommend fellow geeks give it a try!

Let me know if you have any other questions on my benchmark results or on optimizing performance – happy to help a friend out!