Questions tagged [cdn]
A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network.
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Increase in self-referrals in Google Analytics since implementation of CDN
Since the implementation of a CDN, my self-referrals have gone from being non-existent to thousands per day, the referral report in analytics with full referrer as a secondary dimension show that the ...
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Proxy requests from origin to CDN
Reading Google's web.dev article on Optimize Largest Contentful Paint (https://web.dev/optimize-lcp), there is a section that talks about using CDNs which says
While image CDNs are a great way to ...
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How CDN Relates to DNS Resolution and Content Fetching
I was trying to do a deeper dive on CDN and DNS
I understood the concepts around ISP, resolver cache, Root nameserver, TLD Nameserver, Authoritative Nameserver etc. i.e. a website (e.g. www.google....
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Will Google Optimize work with server side caching and a CDN?
My website is using WordPress + WP Rocket Cache plugin + Cloudflare CDN Cache. Will Google Optmize works with such a case? In my understanding, as Google Optimize will change the web page source file, ...
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Website performance gone down after cloudflare cdn activated
I wanted to checkout Cloudflare CDN free version for old website and activate CDN for it and noticed that website performance was hit after activating CDN. What could be reason as I am new to ...
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Disable caching for subdomain on Cloudflare?
How can I disable caching for a subdomain on Cloudflare but keep SSL?
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Will a US, Asia, and Europe CDN improve page load time for Central American visitors to a US hosted site?
The CDN's location servers are on US, Europe, and Asia. The web page is hosted in US. Visitors to your website are only from Central America.
Will the website page load time be benefit if that CDN ...
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Accessing distribution URL directly gives XML error
I'm currently setting up the Amazon Cloudfront distribution and S3 bucket for my Wordpress website. I set up new S3 bucket for the site and i'm using the S3 offload plugin for wordpress to store any ...
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How to purge Firebase Hosting CDN cache for a path with wildcards or query strings (GET params)?
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I'm having a Cloud Run service, that generates images, hosted via Firebase hosting. I benefits from the included Firebase Hosting CDN. Because, with Firebase hosting:
Any requested static ...
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Cloudflare Pending validation error due to VirusTotal
My domain (quảcầu.cc/xn--qucu-hr5aza.cc) couldn't receive certification due to an error:
When I checked with VirusTotal, only one security vendor flagged this URL as malicious. The rest flagged it ...
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Is cloudlayar a legit protection service?
I recently came across a very cheap protection service similar to Cloudflare called Cloudlayar:
https://cloudlayar.com/
It's a bit weird because the prices are too good to be true, no PayPal (so ...
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Increase of Googlebot response time after CDN implementation
Problem: We have a site hosted in Germany that is suffixed with ".de". Recently, we implemented a CDN with Cloudflare. Shortly after our Googlebot response times increased from 60-100ms to 400-500ms. ...
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Point second domain at website when only CloudFlare IPs have been white listed for first domain
I blocked the IP address of my website because I'm using CloudFlare whose IPs I've white listed.
I have another domain which I want to point to my site. Besides an IP address is there anyway I can ...
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Should images moved to CDN be 301 redirected?
I've seen a couple different questions or this one, similar to this, but they didn't really answer my question all they way.
I have a site I built for a friend about a year ago and I recently had all ...
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If I'm using a CDN should I host my images (the originals) at high resolution and no compression?
I'm about to start testing W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress with Cloudflare for CDN.
Is there any downside (other than file size/space on server) to hosting the original images that the CDN uses to ...
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CDN changes URLs to cdn.example.com
I am testing a CDN. All the website URLs are being changed from www.example.com to cdn.example.com and this will lead to a SEO drop.
I have followed the procedure and asked the support service, with ...
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Cloudflare firewall rule blocks bot traffic only partially
We’ve got some trouble with bot traffic (likely scraping) on a website that’s hosted on a fairly small server. The bot requests
a large set of changing pages
in irregular intervals
in the order of ~...
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Can you Bring Your Own IP to Akamai?
Most clouds allow one to bring ones own IP networks. Is this also possible with Akamai or is one stuck with their networks?
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When you use a cdn to deliver images how does google index it?
I have started using a CDN on my website, the image links are as follows:
"https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_lossy,ret_img/https://my-domain-name.example/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/logo-1.png
In ...
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How do I register a custom domain in Azure when I cannot add the Azure Web App hostname as a CNAME to our domain?
Let's assume we're running a website on greatwebsite.com. This is a multilingual website, and we're using /en, /de, /fr as path prefixes to handle languages (and not via top level domains).
We're ...
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When using an image server on a separate domain, should we link directly to the image URL and restrict crawling, or redirect through our domain?
I have a large number of images stored on a separate server, these URLs currently go through a 302 redirect. I think these additional pages are a total waste of time for Google to crawl.
At the ...
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Will introducing a CDN for images on a subdomain dilute our PageRank or hurt our rankings?
Background:
We run a product aggregator site. We list 20k products which will grow to 200k within the next year and also have a section of the site where users can take those product images and ...
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CloudFront very slow TTFB after enabling HTTP/2
My site was running on HTTP/1.1 with CloudFront at front, Webpagetest reports the load time usually at 2 seconds. Yesterday I enabled HTTP/2 (and SSL) on CloudFront, hoping to see an improvement. The ...
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CDNify Not Getting Assets
I'm trying to add my website as a resource on CDNify, but it doesn't seem to be fetching my assets nor caching them.
From their website:
How long does it take the CDN to setup?
5-10 minutes, then ...
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speed boost for just a subdomain
Because I'm hesitant to jump into new products for my website, I'm looking for a special free CDN that I don't know if it exists or not.
I tried incapsula on my mobile site, and unfortunately, it ...
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Google PageSpeed: Generating critical css for css file served from CDN
We were trying to optimise the website using google pagespeed and now having some issue:
We're using nginx_pagespeed module
Trying to enable the prioritize_critical_css filter
Since the CSS files are ...
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What is the best way to invalidate an entire Amazon CloudFront cache or recreate the entire distribution?
After asking this question, I have decided to recreate some CloudFront distributions, as so many files need to be invalidated.
But instead of creating a new distribution, is it possible to just ...
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Is there a limit of emails/pictures per Gravatar account?
I'm building a site to connect patients to doctors. Each doctor will have a profile picture. I'm quite happy to manually maintain the profile pictures as there won't be that many doctors nor will they ...
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Is there any SEO issues with default CDN path
I'm currently having some issues with the Digital Oceans Spaces CDN, I want to add a custom CNAME for my CDN but the way DO works is that we should use DO name servers if we want auto-renew SSL for ...
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Squarespace & Heroku CDN HTTP Challenge Issue
I thought I had followed all the steps correctly but clearly something isn't right. This probably boils down to my understanding of DNS and nameservers because I am still new to this stuff. I'm good ...