Network performance update: Developer Week 2025

Cloudflare reports that, based on Real User Monitoring of 95th percentile TCP connect times across the top 1000 APNIC-listed eyeball networks, it is now the fastest in 48% of networks (up from 44% in Sep 2024), with notable gains in Africa attributed to Edge Partner deployments and improvements in Canada and Japan. The post outlines its RUM methodology (error-page-triggered 100 KB fetches across multiple CDNs), compares competitive performance (tight race in Canada; larger lead in Japan), and describes ongoing efforts to expand peering and deployments to further improve end-user experience.