Amazon S3 vs Github Pages - which results in faster end user page load times?

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I'm creating a static site. It's being generated by Jekyll and version controlled using git. However, purely in terms of end user speed:

Which service offers the fastest page load times in terms of serving up a static website?

I don't see how this is opinion-based. Response-time is measurable. Which makes it fact-based, not opinion based. Are we simply closing this because it mentions a company's name? — Lawrence Weru, May 31 '16 at 20:10
@LarryW. I totally agree. Thank you for chiming in on this. I really would love to know. — jon, Jun 14 '16 at 10:43

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '13 at 16:00

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Last I checked GitHub uses S3 on the backend, so should be the same.

answered Jul 10 '13 at 16:00

Zombo

interesting — do you know if they use a CDN? – jon Jul 10 '13 at 20:39
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thanks for chiming in — alas, it turns out this is incorrect. i heard from github support directly that they do not host github pages on amazon, "We aren't serving any GitHub Pages on Amazon servers. However, a few other GitHub services, such as Releases and archives, use Amazon S3 for some uploading operations." – jon Jul 12 '13 at 14:04

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