Boosting Website Speed With CDN

Today, website speed is more crucial than ever before: this is a feature that defines user experience, SEO and success of a project. Visitors hate waiting, and if your opponents’ websites are faster, potential customers are likely to prefer them. How to ensure quick website loading without spending tons of money and much effort? The answer is obvious: CDN (content delivery network).

What is it?

Content delivery network is a system of servers that are geographically spread and cache data to transfer it to website users. A CDN network can be distributed over some several target regions, or the entire world. This technology is used when a website receives a lot of traffic from different locations, which calls for the need of loading acceleration. With a CDN, you can ensure equally great user experience for visitors from all target regions, no matter how far they are.

By the way, CDN is used not only for website speed acceleration, but such purposes as:

• delivery of video-on-demand;
• online games;
• ensuring 100% uptime and security.

How CDN works?

In its essence, a CDN is a means of caching static website objects (JavaScript, CSS, images, stylesheets) and delivering them to end-users. To put it shortly, the scheme of functioning is the following:

1. The first visitor opens a page, and it’s requested from the original server.
2. Page and its assets are cached on an edge server that’s the closest to the visitor.
3. The next users requesting the same page get the data from the closest edge servers instead of the original one.

Thus, the main idea behind CDN is shortening the distance between a user and a server, which allows for faster data transfer.

Will my website benefit from CDN?

Not all websites can benefit from a content delivery network. If you own a local business, and your website is created for audience concentrated in one area, a CDN won’t be useful. Vice versa, it can even hurt speed and performance.

But when it comes to websites with international traffic and abundance of images and other static files, a content delivery network is a perfect solution. A fast CDN will ensure strikingly fast loading for visitors from all over the world. As the result, you will enjoy:

• Rapid website loading and lower risk of breakdown.
• High security and protection against DDoS attacks.
• 100% uptime.
• High level of user satisfaction.
• Lower bounce rates.
• Growing conversions.

A content delivery network is a way to rocket-speed your website without spending much money and time to develop a separate infrastructure. No matter what your website is dedicated to, you can always find a suitable solution and deploy it in a few minutes – the effect will be instant.

Posted December 28, 2017 04:34