But readers are, understandably, concerned about the impact a VPN will have on their web browsing experience. As such, we tend to de-emphasize speed in our reviews, unless it is impressively good or abysmally bad. While speed is important, other factors such as value and privacy protections are far more important. But there's a deeper issue: using a VPN will almost invariably reduce upload and download speeds and increase the latency of your internet connection.
Some websites will block VPN traffic because they view it as suspicious. Using a VPN (usually) costs money, but it also comes at a performance cost.
