CDN for SEO

[Craig Bird]

Should we be using a CDN for SEO? What are the Pro/Con's? Free Cloudflare OK, or would something paid, such as KeyCDN be recommended?

 

[Darren_Ssc]

A CDN should speed-up delivery of static resources at least. Other enhancements which are available via cloudflare free and pro really ought to be the least you are doing these days.

Bear in mind that in most cases any requests still need to hit your origin server and this is where optimisation ought to begin.

 

[Craig Bird]

Thanks @Darren_Ssc - what CDN do you use?

 

[Darren_Ssc]

Thanks @Darren_Ssc - what CDN do you use?

Cloudflare with a mix of free and pro. 3 sites on pro with a few extras like argo adds up to about £60 a month though. Free has quite a lot of features included though such as http/3

 

[fisicx]

Cloudflare with a mix of free and pro. 3 sites on pro with a few extras like argo adds up to about £60 a month though. Free has quite a lot of features included though such as http/3

Is there a measurable improvement in page load times? Or do you just use the CDN for convenience?

My main money site has 2 images on the homepage each under 100kB. Everything else is just standard wordpress files. Using a CDN probably won't achieve much for me.

@Craig Bird - there are a whole bunch of things you could do to improve the site before investing in a CDN. For starters, stop using all those Google resources - even Google suggests it's not a good idea on their site audit.

 

[Darren_Ssc]

Is there a measurable improvement in page load times? Or do you just use the CDN for convenience?

My main money site has 2 images on the homepage each under 100kB. Everything else is just standard wordpress files. Using a CDN probably won't achieve much for me.

Just a standard wordpress site will call up at least a couple of javascript files so there is a minor saving to made there. Will it be visually noticeable, no.

There are other benefits, of course. For instance, the pro version includes a great WAF with pre-configured profiles for wordpress, and on-the-fly jpg to webp image optimisation.

Incremental performance improvements are minor but they add up to significant savings overall though. The more complex the site, the bigger the boost you're going to experience.

Of course, much of this could be done at server level but, personally, I prefer not to go down that route since it can become a bit of a rabbit hole and I soon veer away from my comfort zone.

 

[BrackNelson]

Besides creating amazing content, building backlinks, and creating social signals; speeding up your website is a great way to help Google index and rank your site faster. Implementing a content delivery network (CDN) can be an easy way to see faster speeds and actually help improve your SEO.
The main advantages of using a content delivery network are:

• Lower server load.
• Increase in concurrent users on server.
• Geo-location of the content.
• Faster content delivery to the web browsers.
• Customer may have already downloaded the content

The main disadvantages of using a content delivery network are:

• Content delivery networks cost additional money.
• Adds complexity to your website and deployment procedures.
• Customers may have network filters that block some Content delivery networks and prevent your content from being loaded.
• Geo-location may not be close to your target audience, in fact, it might be further than your own website losing any benefit speed.

 

[stelajones]

In addition to creating amazing content, establishing backlinks and creating social signals; speeding up your website visit is a great way to help Google index and rank your website faster. Implementing a content delivery network (CDN) is an easy way to view faster, and it can actually help improve your SEO.

 

[Arif Chowdhury]

check your site speed with several "free site speed checkers". If you get low-performance results then first check your site image size. If those are 100KB+ then try to reduce the size as well as change the format to JPG & compress using the free image compress tool.

Most of the time compressing images are all you need to speed up your website. If you still face problems then use "Cache plugin" for the WordPress site.

If you still facing a problem then you may check CDN.

 

[Naheed Mir]

Yes, using a CDN for SEO is generally beneficial. Faster sites decrease bounce rates, which helps in improving SEO scores. Similarly, if a site is available 24 hrs, it would give you an edge over your competitor. As we know, search engines give more importance to mobile-friendly pages. If your website helps mobile-friendly content (CDN’s FEO does this), then your Search Engine Rankings will achieve.

 

[fisicx]

Yes, using a CDN for SEO is generally beneficial. Faster sites decrease bounce rates, which helps in improving SEO scores. Similarly, if a site is available 24 hrs, it would give you an edge over your competitor. As we know, search engines give more importance to mobile-friendly pages. If your website helps mobile-friendly content (CDN’s FEO does this), then your Search Engine Rankings will achieve.

More pointless rubbish from @Naheed Mir . Worth pointing she has joined all sorts of forums and posting the same sort of rubbish.