Google: The Value of Content Distribution Networks

Meanwhile, the Google Maps and Google Analytics javascript files are the slowest loading files on my site.

You think that's bad, try the PayPal donate button sometime.

sounds like google is replicating akamai.

For folks that are interested in CDN, you should know about consistent hashing (helps to know about it in general): http://bit.ly/2P1wL [pdf]

disclosure: I have worked at akamai in the past.

Seems like this is how they're trying to reduce the bandwidth that YouTube is using.

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