It depends on how far you are from the region. From India on 15 Oct 2026, Wikipedia opened in a median 1.4 s through Singapore, 2.4 s through Frankfurt and 3.7 s through Virginia, against 1.2 s direct.
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Speed through any web proxy is mostly distance: your device talks to the proxy, the proxy talks to the site, and each leg adds round trips. AnyProxy's free tier has three regions, Singapore, Frankfurt and Virginia; Pro adds Tokyo and Los Angeles, and new visitors start on the nearest one. We measured on 15 October 2026 from a test machine in India. Each run used a fresh browser, pressed Go on anyproxy.site with en.wikipedia.org, and stopped the timer when the proxied page finished loading; we did four runs per region, interleaved, and compared with loading Wikipedia directly. Median times: 1.2 s direct, 1.4 s through Singapore, 2.4 s through Frankfurt, 3.7 s through Virginia. So the nearest region cost about a fifth of a second, and the farthest roughly three times the direct time. The first visit to a region was slower (2.6 s in Singapore) than later ones, and the first visit to a site behind a Cloudflare check can take a few more seconds while AnyProxy completes it. This is one location, one site, one evening, not a benchmark; your results depend on where you are. Pro does not make a region faster; it only adds the two extra locations.
In practice
Light in optical fibre covers about 200,000 km per second, so every 1,000 km adds roughly 10 ms to each round trip, and a page needs many round trips. Our India test shows it: Singapore, the nearest region, was close to a direct load, while Virginia, on the other side of the world, took about three times as long.
Sources: Latency - glossary · Pricing - regions on Free and Pro
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