A process for prioritizing content responses executed by a first server in a distributed cloud platform. The first server including processor, and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the first server to perform operations including to receive a request for a plurality of content items from a client device, where the proxy server is in a distributed cloud computing platform, receive a first content item of the plurality of content items from an origin server or a cache, determine a priority scheme for ordering the plurality of content items, where the priority scheme is specific to the plurality of content items and is derived from analysis of a first content item from the plurality of content items, and send a response including the plurality of content items to the client device in an order according to the determined priority scheme.