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use a CDN like Amazon S3 or Azure generally improves things.
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use a CDN like Amazon S3 or Azure generally improves things.

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David, do you have any good articles or &quot;best practice&quot; ideas along these lines that I can pass on to those asking the questions?
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David, do you have any good articles or "best practice" ideas along these lines that I can pass on to those asking the questions?

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This was very helpful info. Sorry I forgot to come back and grade this earlier.
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This was very helpful info. Sorry I forgot to come back and grade this earlier.

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Curious of others experience in measuring / tracking response and load times of websites at various locations around the world. &nbsp;What tools do you recommend for this? &nbsp;What best practices have you found to facilitate better response times? &nbsp;We are currently hosting in the U.S. and my perception is that response time is not great in some remote worldwide locations, but internet speed is not the greatest here regardless. &nbsp;We've wondered about how much hosting closer to the primary users will help. Would love to hear how others have approached this.<br />
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Is this something that cloud hosting would help with?
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Curious of others experience in measuring / tracking response and load times of websites at various locations around the world.  What tools do you recommend for this?  What best practices have you found to facilitate better response times?  We are currently hosting in the U.S. and my perception is that response time is not great in some remote worldwide locations, but internet speed is not the greatest here regardless.  We've wondered about how much hosting closer to the primary users will help. Would love to hear how others have approached this.

Is this something that cloud hosting would help with?

Website Hosting for Best Worldwide Response Times

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