The main importance of online shopping is to save the customer’s time. When your web page loading is delayed, the web users will become impatient. This leads to lacking customer’s expectations as well as the revenue in spite of how good your web page looks !!! By improving your Web page performance, you can meet the customer’s satisfaction and progress increase in your application. For the improvisation of the web page there are many techniques available, which might be simple or little complicated. As the importance of page loading is known, you must consider the same.
Content Delivery Network (CDN) is one of the main ways to load your web page faster. The number one reason to use CDN is to improve your end user’s experience in terms of speed.
What is CDN?
CDN is a distributed network of cache servers that delivers web pages and web contents to the end users based on their geographical locations. A CDN caches the static contents like images, css/js files and other structural components in distributed servers (cache servers) across worldwide which automatically calculates which server is located nearest to the user, thereby bringing web content and web resources closer to the users in order to reduce round trip time.
When to use CDN?
Ensuring a consistent experience for all your users is important. For example, a web page may be hosted in a particular region (x), but majority of the users are from an entirely different region(y), their speed will not be as fast as users in x-region experienced it to be. A global CDN allows user from y-region to download static content from a closer source, instead of bridging x-region server to retrieve the data. This reduces latency and provides faster loading time of your web pages.
What are the other benefits if using CDN?
CDN not only ensures faster experience to your users, but also reduces the distance that the content travel, number of hops , optimized bandwidth, faster performance which minimizes the latency , while improving overall user experience. It also used to protect the content when internet attack or malfunction, content that is hosted on a CDN server will remain available to at some users.
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