TTFTB slow

[JeroenVdb]

(05-05-2017 02:26 AM)dfavor Wrote:  4) Get rid of all http://myzone.96agsbqcsnyrel6wl.maxcdn-edge.com references.

CDNs tend to slow down well tuned sites.

I'd like to nuance this statement about CDNs.

CDN can certainly help make your site faster. Especially when you're having visitors from all over the world. The CDN will then serve your assets from an Edge node closer to the user then your hosting.

In your example your self-hosted asset is indeed faster if you test US <-> US. treeiup's asset is hosted in the UK <-> US so you can expect longer TTFB.
If I would test your self-hosted asset from the EU I would also get longer TTFB.
If you have a CDN the assets would then be cached in the EU and served quicker to subsequent users.

But if your users are mainly located in the UK and your hosting is to it won't make that much of a difference.