Note from 14 April 2022

TIL: Configure an apex domain on #Netlify

the apex domain can’t take advantage of direct DNS routing on a global CDN like @Netlify’s

I guess I now understand why my photography site was slow from France


  1. I still don't understand why using Cloudflare in front of Netlify allows for a much better and stable Time To First Byte (TTFB) than Cloudflare Pages or Netlify alone… 🤷‍♂️

    SpeedCurve graph with Time To First Byte for the 3 hosting solutions

    TTFB for static sites should always be very low.