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# [I Added a CDN Cache to My Site and It Got Slower. Here's the Math I Should Have Done First.](https://freecodecamp.org/news/cdn-cache-made-my-site-slower?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Last week I put a CDN cache in front of a static site, expecting it to get faster. But instead, it got measurably slower. Not subtly: an independent crawler that had flagged 38 slow pages before the c

Aug 27 · 9 min read · freecodecamp.org  
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[Javeed Shaik](https://hashnode.com/@javeedshaik7)

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Developer building free health and fitness calculators.

Developer building free health and fitness calculators at healthycalculatorhub.com — 33 of them so far, covering BMI, BMR, body composition, macros and pacing. I write about the engineering behind them: static site performance, CDN caching, and the measurements that prove whether an optimisation actually worked.

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