How fast is it? Here are the numbers.

01 The measurements

Two things are timed from each city: an image on the page, and the page's HTML document. Each is requested three times and the table shows the middle value. The number is the time to first byte, meaning how long the probe waits for the answer to start after sending the request.

"Answered by" is the code of the datacenter that served the probe. The small line under each HTML time is the fastest and slowest of the three requests.

Measured with Globalping, an independent, community-run probe network. The page measured is speedtest.yapp.page, an ordinary published page.

02 Why the two columns differ

Images, styles, scripts and downloads are copied to a datacenter near each visitor the first time someone in that region opens your page. After that they are served locally, which is why the image column is 10 to 30 ms on every continent. The very first request in a region is slower, typically 100 to 300 ms, because the file still has to travel there once.

The HTML document is deliberately not copied. It always comes from our server in Germany, so an edit, a password, an expiry or a takedown applies to the next visitor everywhere, with no stale copy left anywhere. The cost is distance: close to instant in Europe, a few hundred milliseconds in North America, and up to about a second in Asia, Australia and South America.

Far regions also swing between a low and a high value. When the network already has an open connection to our server, the document answers in one round trip. When it does not, opening one takes several round trips first. A page with regular visitors from a region mostly sees the lower number.

03 Test it from where you are

The table shows probes in ten cities. This button times the same page from your own browser, on your own connection, right now. Nothing is sent to us.

Each number is the middle value of five requests after one warm-up request. It includes your own network, so weak Wi-Fi or mobile signal adds to it.

04 Check it yourself

You do not have to take the table on trust. Globalping is free and run by a third party, and every request in the table is one you can repeat.

• Open globalping.io, choose HTTP, enter any yapp.page address and pick a location.
• Request an image twice. The first request fills the cache in that region, the second shows what visitors get.

05 How it works, in plain words

When you publish a page, its files live on our server in Germany. The first time someone in, say, Tokyo opens your page, the network keeps a copy of its images and other files in a datacenter in Tokyo. From then on, every visitor nearby gets those files from Tokyo, not from Germany.

That is what a CDN (content delivery network) does, and it is the same infrastructure the largest sites on the internet use. On yapp.page it is on for every page automatically. There is nothing to configure and nothing to pay extra.

• Photos, videos, styles are stored in 300+ locations worldwide after first view.
• Updates appear immediately. When you swap a photo or edit a page, we remove the old copies from the network at that moment, so new visitors see the new version right away.
• Included in every plan, also the free one.

06 Why speed matters for your page

Slow pages lose people. Research consistently shows visitors abandon pages that take more than a few seconds, and most of your visitors will open your link on a phone, often on mobile networks. Images are usually most of what a page weighs, so serving them from the visitor's own city instead of another continent does the most for how fast your page feels.

It also matters for sharing: links opened from WhatsApp, Instagram or LinkedIn get no second chance. The first impression is the load time.

07 Publish something fast

Publish a page, free and without an account. It is on the global network from the first second.

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