Your Cloudflare Edge Is in the Wrong Country — colo= vs loc= and a 6-Second Page That Became 1 Second
A public-sector site took 6 seconds to load through Cloudflare and 1 second direct to the server. The cause was not the server or the cache. It was an edge location in another country. Here is how to see it with cdn-cgi/trace, prove it with curl, and decide what to do.