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		xtreme on March 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JsDelivr – The advanced open source public CDN You should optimize the common path, not the edge cases. Most of the time the user would be benefited (cached content = faster load) from using CDN. On the other hand, CDN being unreachable is not a very common scenario, so it is acceptable to be a little slower.

Jach on March 20, 2014 [–]

CDNs are already an edge-case optimization, provided that unique visitors is less than number of visits.

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