# First Byte Time vs CDN?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-byte-time-vs-cdn/141899>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 18, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-byte-time-vs-cdn/141899 "2020-02-18T14:14:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-byte-time-vs-cdn/141899/15 "2020-02-18T22:17:37Z")

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Since Discourse blocks the rendering waiting for JS & CSS, you will still make the page interactive faster by leveraging a CDN.

Doing this type of analysis requires a bit more than blindly running lighthouse and webpagetest and picking a result and obsessing over it.

If your priority is having a page with a higher score on those tools I recommend running a blog powered by tools like [https://jekyllrb.com/](https://jekyllrb.com/)

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