What is RTT in CDN context?

RTT (Round-Trip Time) is the time it takes to send a request to a CDN server and receive a response. It is measured in milliseconds and indicates the network's response speed.

What is the difference between TTFB and RTT?

TTFB (Time To First Byte) measures the time from sending an HTTP request until receiving the first byte of the response. RTT measures the complete data exchange cycle at the network level. TTFB is usually greater than RTT because it includes the server's request processing time.

What Availability metric is considered good for CDN?

For professional CDN providers, an Availability (uptime) rate of 99.9% or higher is considered standard. Market leaders achieve 99.99% or even 99.999% availability.

EdgeCenter availability: independent monitoring data

Real-world EdgeCenter uptime by region

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Dynamics of availability

Cities with low availability

Providers with low availability

EdgeCenter — a Russian CDN provider and cloud platform. In addition to content delivery, it offers DDoS protection, cloud hosting, and DNS services. The infrastructure is built on Anycast routing and is actively expanding across Russian regions and the CIS. Targeted at technology companies and projects with high fault-tolerance requirements. EdgeCenter builds its infrastructure free from legacy technical debt, with fault tolerance designed in at the architecture level. The key maturity indicator is incident recovery time. Check the log in the histogram of cities with low availability: fast recovery indicates automated incident response.

What is Availability and why measure it?

Availability — the percentage of time the CDN correctly serves user requests. This is the fundamental reliability metric of a provider.
The practical difference between availability levels:

Availability	Downtime per year
99,0%	87 hours
99,9%	8,7 hours
99,99%	52 minutes

Even brief outages directly impact revenue, reputation, and search rankings — Google takes site availability into account when ranking pages.

What do the availability charts show?

Availability trend chart (HTTP/HTTPS) — reveals brief outages that do not always appear in providers' official reports. A divergence between HTTP and HTTPS lines may indicate SSL termination issues on specific nodes.
Cities with low availability — locations with unstable CDN node operation. An incident in a specific city may be invisible in aggregate statistics, but can be critical for the local audience.
Providers with low availability — a comparative reliability ranking. Shows how closely the declared SLA matches real-world independent monitoring data.