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title: Accelerate connections
description: Reduce latency with Argo Smart Routing, HTTP/3, and Early Hints asset preloading.
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# Accelerate connections

Network congestion and suboptimal routing between your origin and visitors add latency. Cloudflare Argo Smart Routing uses real-time network telemetry to route requests through the fastest paths, while Early Hints preloads assets before the full HTML response arrives.

## Solutions

### Argo Smart Routing

Route traffic through the fastest paths across Cloudflare's network. [Learn more about Argo Smart Routing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/argo-smart-routing/).

* **Smart routing** \- Automatically route requests through uncongested network paths, reducing latency between edge and origin
* **Optimized paths** \- Real-time network telemetry selects the fastest available route for each request

### Speed

Improve the performance of your website or web application. [Learn more about Speed](https://developers.cloudflare.com/speed/).

* **Faster handshakes** \- Assess the performance of your website and gain recommendations on how to optimize your website

### Early Hints

Preload assets before the HTML response arrives. [Learn more about Early Hints](https://developers.cloudflare.com/speed/optimization/content/early-hints/).

* **Asset preloading** \- Send `103 Early Hints` responses so browsers start fetching assets before the full HTML arrives

## Get started

1. [Enable Argo Smart Routing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/argo-smart-routing/get-started/)
2. [Enable HTTP/3](https://developers.cloudflare.com/speed/optimization/protocol/http3/)
3. [Enable Early Hints](https://developers.cloudflare.com/speed/optimization/content/early-hints/)

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