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Global Accelerator Benefit Calculator

Work out global accelerator benefit instantly with clear inputs, formula shown and shareable results.

About Global Accelerator Benefit Calculator

A global accelerator moves traffic onto the provider's private backbone at the nearest edge location, avoiding congested and indirect public internet paths. Improvements of 30 to 60 percent are typical for long-distance connections. Expressing the benefit as aggregate user-seconds saved makes the modest monthly fee easy to justify at scale.

Formula

Acceleration benefit

latency saved = baseline - accelerated; user-seconds saved = saved ms x requests / 1000; cost per second saved = monthly cost / seconds saved

Worked example

With the default values below, Global Accelerator Benefit Calculator returns Latency saved per request of 65.0. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.

Inputs used

Latency over the public internetminimum 0.1 ms
180 ms
Latency over the provider backboneminimum 0.1 ms
115 ms
Requests per monthminimum 0 millions
60 millions
Accelerator monthly costminimum 0
350

Results

Latency saved per request
65.0 ms
Latency improvement
36.1%
Aggregate user-seconds saved per month
3,900,000 s
Cost per user-second saved
$0.000090

Step by step

  1. 1Values used
  2. 2Acceleration benefit
  3. 3Latency saved per request= 65.0 ms
  4. 4Latency improvement= 36.1
  5. 5Aggregate user-seconds saved per month= 3,900,000 s
  6. 6Cost per user-second saved= 0.000090

Assumptions and limits

  • The result is derived only from the 4 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
  • In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax or compounding frequency into account.
  • Figures are rounded for display to 6 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.

How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is the private backbone faster?

Fewer hops, no inter-provider peering congestion, and routes optimised for latency rather than cost. Public internet paths often take significant detours.

Does an accelerator replace a CDN?

No. A CDN caches content at the edge; an accelerator improves the path for dynamic and non-cacheable traffic. They are complementary.

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