How far is the world from your desk?

Latency is a timed HTTPS request to a regional endpoint in each city. The first request to each is thrown away because it pays for DNS, TCP and TLS setup; the figure shown is the median of the five that follow on the same connection. Measured that way, it lands within a few milliseconds of a real ICMP ping to the same region.

The Fire-IT column is the identical request, to the identical endpoint, run from our Johannesburg network. Two cities, Miami and Moscow, have no endpoint a browser is allowed to reach, so those are reported as our own ICMP readings and left out of the comparison rather than measured a different way and presented as equivalent.

Download and upload run against Cloudflare rather than our own servers, so the number is not one we can flatter. The separate “to Fire-IT” figure is the leg that matters if you host with us, and that one is ours.

Results are recorded so we can build a picture of how different South African networks perform. A result only appears on this page as a named comparison if we choose to publish it, and never with anything that identifies who ran it.