{"id":1453,"date":"2020-06-07T21:13:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1453"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:01:48","slug":"why-does-my-time-to-first-byte-appear-to-be-slower-with-cloudflare","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/why-does-my-time-to-first-byte-appear-to-be-slower-with-cloudflare","title":{"rendered":"Why does my time to first byte appear to be slower with Cloudflare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com\/zkvhlag99gkb\/3DDRz6sPcW8kWs2Xw8iDv4\/f99afbb10dad72d9d1f28855a71edb49\/image1-18.png\" alt=\"Are you measuring what matters? A fresh look at Time To First Byte\" width=\"514\" height=\"289\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Why does my time to first byte appear to be slower with Cloudflare?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Many reporting tools use algorithms that can\u2019t easily factor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cloudflare<\/a> into the time to first byte calculation slower with Cloudflare. Please see this comment from Webpagetest.org describing how Cloudflare would still make your site faster. Even if it appears that the first byte numbers appear to be high. We also have written a fairly extensive blog post about\u00a0<strong>Cloudflare and Time to First Byte<\/strong>\u00a0that explains more about First Byte times and Cloudflare &amp; why the Time to First Byte metric is really not the most important measure of how fast your content is loading.<\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Please refer to the following article to know more.<br \/>\nKnowledge Base: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-does-cloudflare-work\">How does Cloudflare work?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does my time to first byte appear to be slower with Cloudflare? Many reporting tools use algorithms that can\u2019t easily factor Cloudflare into the time to first byte calculation slower with Cloudflare. Please see this comment from Webpagetest.org describing how Cloudflare would still make your site faster. Even if it appears that the first byte numbers appear to be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[43],"kbtag":[1124,1482],"class_list":["post-1453","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cloudflare","kbtag-cloudflare","kbtag-first-byte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6107,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1453\/revisions\/6107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}