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CDN Latency Compared

Posted by Yejun on March 21, 2009 4 comments

I compared some puplar commercial CDN’s global latency by using just-ping.

The raw test result you can downloaded from here.

Result Summary:

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NetworkAverageMedian

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Akamai9.672.9

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Aol CDN9.224

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Panthercdn62.3612.7

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LimeLight58.0413.2

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Mosso Cloud Files56.8113.5

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Amazon Cloudfront62.8218.6

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Google Homepage53.5323.15

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Cachefly54.5728.2

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Google Ajax Library54.9628.5

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Homemade CDN76.3129

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Yahoo Homepage82.7738.4

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Google App Engine76.0342.8

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US East130.1196.9

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SimpleCDN142.84100.8

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US West156.32165.4

Chart:

CDN Latency Comparison

Notes:

  1. Akamai
  2. Aol CDN is served by Akamai
  3. Panther Express
  4. Limelight Networks
  5. Mosso is served by Limelight
  6. Amazon CloudFront Images on this page are served by CloudFront
  7. Google
  8. CacheFly
  9. Google AJAX Libraries
  10. This page is served by my own homemade CDN, you can test speed here
  11. Yahoo
  12. Google App Engine
  13. Single location ip in New Jersey USA listed here for comparison purpose
  14. SimpleCDN
  15. Single location ip in California USA listed here for comparison purpose

Disclamer: I am not affiliated to any company mentioned above. Nor do I endorse the accuracy of these results.