Cloudflare pulls from Seattle not Vancouver when testing from Vancouver?

Hi,

Using GTMetrix to monitor a clients website relevant to Vancouver, BC. Testing via GTM from the default location of Vancouver. CF apparently has a node in Vancouver which should be excellent performance-wise for users working and living in that area, so I’m confused as to the reason why CF always ignores it and always fetches content from its Seattle location instead. It’s the same with any website I test.

By comparison, if I test any site or the same site from London via GTMetrix, it shows it is using the London Heathrow node which makes more sense. Is the Vancouver location broken? :thinking:

Would appreciate your thoughts on this.

Thank you.

Response Version - HTTP/2
access-control-allow-origin	
*
alt-svc	
h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400, h3-28=":443"; ma=86400, h3-27=":443"; ma=86400
cache-control	
max-age=3600, public, s-maxage=3600, stale-while-revalidate, stale-if-error
cf-cache-status	
DYNAMIC
cf-ray	
6bce5d0c6ce36083-SEA
content-encoding	
br
content-type	
text/html;charset=UTF-8
date	
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:03:36 GMT
expect-ct	
max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
expires	
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:03:35 GMT
last-modified	
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 09:48:01 GMT
nel	
{"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
permissions-policy	
interest-cohort=(),sync-xhr=(self),web-share=(self)
referrer-policy	
strict-origin-when-cross-origin
report-to	
{"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v3?s=etYPynn0zgy2O5DWXn%2Bks3kuEmO1bnhWufEtj80GAYckupOW%2FEaqhCVhOemPlSOiE5BD6lhmB336EASHybwuIDWr74HvFAiQBwpFxmGUz7iKutoPSiHr%2FJKyCbbFKwtSbFXW"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
server	
cloudflare
set-cookie	
ips4_IPSSessionFront=1a77593ea4d285faf7b6b17183721b3c; path=/; secure; HttpOnly
strict-transport-security	
max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains; preload
vary	
Cookie,Accept-Encoding
x-content-type-options	
nosniff
x-frame-options	
SAMEORIGIN
x-ips-cached-response	
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 09:48:01 GMT
x-ips-loggedin	
0
x-xss-protection	
0
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Thank you for the info, very interesting.

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