2026 Birthday week: network performance update

What happened

Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks. Cloudflare is now the fastest provider in 74% of the 1,000 largest networks around the world, up from 60% in April 2026. Cloudflare is an information and communications technology company based in San Francisco.

This huge improvement matters because every millisecond affects how quickly users can reach the applications, APIs, and websites they rely on. The figure below shows the countries where Cloudflare is the fastest provider.

The graphic below shows countries where Cloudflare has become the fastest provider across those networks since April. Here you see the number of additional networks on which Cloudflare is now the fastest.