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20% -- lcp improvement with cdn for websites under heavy bot traffic (2025)
Content Delivery Networks provide a 20 percent improvement in Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in heavy bot traffic scenarios.
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20%
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Percentage
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2025
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75
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60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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WP Engine
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https://dazzlebirds.com/blog/bot-traffic-trends-wp-engine-2025/ ↗
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Bot Traffic Trends in WP Engine’s 2025 Report
WP Engine’s Web Traffic Trends Report 2025 shows significant shifts in web traffic, especially bot traffic trends. It also reflects that 76 percent of bot traffic is unverified, which increases concerns raised by bot traffic trends. Largest Contentful Paint is one to five seconds faster on HTTPS sit…
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WP Engine Web Traffic Trends Report 2025
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websites under heavy bot traffic: 20% lcp improvement with cdn. Source: WP Engine (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cdn-lcp-improvement-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/cdn-lcp-improvement-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>20%</strong> -- lcp improvement with cdn for websites under heavy bot traffic<br><small>Source: WP Engine (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/cdn-lcp-improvement-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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