How fast is GitHub Pages?
As of 2026-11-11, 27 providers were measured from Washington, D.C., Frankfurt and Tokyo (average) over the last 7 days. Amazon CloudFront was the fastest, at a median 12 ms; GitHub Pages ranked #2, at 13 ms.
By location
Where GitHub Pages is fast, and where it isn't
Distribution
GitHub Pages among every redirect tested
Bars: every URL measured from all three locations in the last 7 days, by its median first byte averaged over the three. Lines: provider medians.
All providers
Redirect speed by provider, last 7 days
Median first byte averaged over Washington, D.C., Frankfurt and Tokyo, over the last 7 days. Only URLs measured from all three locations count; each provider is listed with how many URLs its figures come from.
| # | Provider | Median | p90 | URLs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon CloudFront | 12 ms | 15 ms | 1 | |
| 2 | GitHub Pages | 13 ms | 246 ms | 1 | |
| 3 | Fastly | 14 ms | 19 ms | 5 | |
| 4 | Microsoft Azure | 16 ms | 18 ms | 1 | |
| 5 | RedirHubUs | 17 ms | 32 ms | 4 | |
| 6 | redirect.pizza | 18 ms | 354 ms | 3 | |
| 7 | Akamai | 25 ms | 35 ms | 3 | |
| 8 | Cloudflare | 35 ms | 45 ms | 8 | |
| 9 | 35 ms | 39 ms | 1 | ||
| 10 | Short.io | 57 ms | 174 ms | 2 | |
| 11 | Meta | 58 ms | 79 ms | 1 | |
| 12 | Dub | 61 ms | 106 ms | 1 | |
| 13 | Vercel | 73 ms | 99 ms | 1 | |
| 14 | YouTube | 95 ms | 103 ms | 1 | |
| 15 | TinyURL | 98 ms | 247 ms | 2 | |
| 16 | Envoy | 107 ms | 135 ms | 4 | |
| 17 | Bitly | 117 ms | 131 ms | 3 | |
| 18 | Amazon | 125 ms | 275 ms | 1 | |
| 19 | Buffer | 151 ms | 179 ms | 1 | |
| 20 | Rebrandly | 263 ms | 275 ms | 1 | |
| 21 | nginx | 291 ms | 300 ms | 2 | |
| 22 | 307 ms | 424 ms | 1 | ||
| 23 | urllo | 309 ms | 322 ms | 30 | |
| 24 | Spotify | 319 ms | 328 ms | 1 | |
| 25 | Cuttly | 392 ms | 482 ms | 1 | |
| 26 | BL.INK | 456 ms | 659 ms | 2 | |
| 27 | Apache | 457 ms | 624 ms | 1 |
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Method
How these numbers are measured
A fixed list, every day
Well-known redirects and short links are measured every day from Washington, D.C., Frankfurt and Tokyo, so every location always has a baseline.
Plus what people test
Every URL tested on the speed test counts once per location, grouped by the provider that answered it. Entries expire after 7 days, and refused answers (403, 429) are left out.
Same measurement for all
Fresh connection, no redirect following, median of every run. Run the same test with curl →
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