Blog - KeyCDN

HTTP vs HTTPS: The Difference Between HTTP and HTTPS

Do you pay attention to whether the URL of the website you are visiting starts with HTTP or HTTPS in your browser's address bar? If not, you should definitely do so in the future, especially when you enter your personal information or make online payments with your credit card. All that matters then is HTTPS in the URL! The team here at KeyCDN always encourages people to move to HTTPS for several reasons, such as performance benefits, additional security, and even SEO advantages.

May 5, 2016 Read more

Let's Encrypt Leaves Beta - HTTPS Statistics

It's official, as of April 12, 2016, Let's Encrypt is now out of beta! They first launched back in September 2015 and have now deployed certificates on millions of websites. They set out to help make the "HTTPS Everywhere" goal a reality, and they are making good dent towards accomplishing that. We here at KeyCDN love Let's Encrypt and fully support them in their work to help make the web a safer place by providing free SSL certificates for everyone.

April 21, 2016 Read more

Free CDNs - Utilizing Open Source In Your Projects

The team here at KeyCDN loves open source. We use a lot of open source software in our own projects and we also believe it is important to give back to the community to help make the web a better, faster, and more secure place. While there are a number of fantastic premium CDN solutions you can choose from there are also a lot of great free CDNs (open source) you can utilize to help decrease the costs on your next project.

April 20, 2016 Read more

KeyCDN Enables HTTP/2 HPACK Compression - Huffman Encoding

KeyCDN is excited to announce that we have enabled HPACK compression, which utilizes Huffman encoding, for all of you who are running over HTTPS on HTTP/2. This is now running on all of our edge servers and there is no configuration necessary on your part. HPACK compression reduces the size of your headers by over 30% on average. There is less data now being sent which in turn will increase your content delivery speeds.

April 14, 2016 Read more

Fastest CDN - Checklist to Find the Best CDN Solution

Many people are always looking for the fastest CDN (content delivery network). After all, that is a big part of what a good content delivery solution is all about. However, the fastest CDN might not always be the best solution for your business or website. There are a lot of different factors you should consider when shopping for a content delivery solution, speed is definitely one of them, but you also should be looking at a CDN provider's latency, support, pricing, features, and even security.

April 7, 2016 Read more

Resource Hints - What is Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect?

Today we are going to explore current resource hints and directives which can be another great way to boost the performance on your website or web application. You might have heard of preload, prefetch, and preconnect, but we want to dive deeper into the differences between them how how you can benefit from them. Some of the advantages of these is that they allow web developers to optimize delivery of resources, reduce round trips, and fetch resources to deliver content faster while a user is browsing a page.

March 31, 2016 Read more

KeyCDN Launches New POP in Canada

KeyCDN is dedicated to expansion throughout the globe and we are excited to announce our new point of presence (POP) in Montreal, Canada! This is our first POP in Canada and your visitors in that location should immediately see a dramatic improvement in latency and throughput. The new POP is now in production and has been automatically added to all existing Zones. POP in Montreal extends content delivery to Canada KeyCDN is dedicated to providing a strong presence throughout the globe and this new POP in Canada will be our 25th location, our 2nd location added in 2016.

March 23, 2016 Read more

Complete Guide on Magento Security

Magento is a very popular ecommerce platform used today that people choose to grow their online businesses. According to BuiltWith, over 22% of the top 100,000 ecommerce websites are using Magento, along with Magento Enterprise. It is known for being a very robust platform with a high level of functionality and customizability. As with any major platform, security concerns always present themselves as new vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered or exploited.

March 17, 2016 Read more

How to Improve Your YSlow Score

When it comes to web performance and speed there are many different scoring tools and tests available to aid you in benchmarking your site. Tools such as WebPageTest, Pingdom, and GTmetrix all provide valuable insights into how fast your site loads and what you can do to make it better. Today we want to explore how to improve your YSlow score and applicable steps you can follow today to speed up your website.

March 15, 2016 Read more

Hardening Your HTTP Security Headers

There are a lot of things to consider to when securing your website or web application, but a good place to start is to explore your HTTP security headers and ensure you are keeping up with best practices. In many cases they are very easy to implement and only require a slight web server configuration change. HTTP security headers provide yet another layer of security by helping to mitigate attacks and security vulnerabilities.

March 10, 2016 Read more