Blog - KeyCDN

21 Ways to Reduce Bounce Rate on Your Website

When it comes to running a successful website you should always be looking at all the data. A very important factor that a lot of website owners, developers, and marketers overlook is their bounce rate. If you have a high bounce rate than most likely there is a cause for that such as your website is slow, it has bad navigation, HTTPS mixed-content warnings, unusable on mobile, etc. which are causing visitors to leave your website.

March 8, 2016 Read more

Harness the Power of WP-CLI to Manage Your WordPress Sites

WordPress is well known for being very user-friendly, and that is one of the reasons it has become one of the most popular content management systems on the web. But when it comes to managing multiple WordPress sites and repeating the same operations over and over again it can become quite a tedious task for developers. And that brings us to WP-CLI, a set of command line tools to help speed up the development process and accomplish tasks more efficiently and quickly.

March 3, 2016 Read more

Diving into Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

If you're a website owner, you know how important it is to have a fast-loading website. Not only does it improve the user experience, but it also helps with search engine optimization (SEO). With the growing usage of mobile devices to browse the web, it's even more crucial to have a mobile-optimized website that loads quickly. This is where Google's Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP) comes in. AMP is an open-source framework that helps websites load faster on mobile devices.

March 1, 2016 Read more

Why You Should Be Establishing SSL Trust for Your Business

All online businesses rely on building a certain level of trust with their visitors in order for them to complete a transaction. With Google pushing for a 100% secure web, more and more people are becoming aware of HTTPS and are losing trust in sites that don't use an SSL. If a visitor doesn't feel like their information or browsing experience is safe, they might avoid purchasing or filling out a form altogether.

February 25, 2016 Read more

Diagnosing admin-ajax.php Slow Responses in WordPress

With each CMS platform comes its own unique issues that you have to troubleshoot and deal with as a web developer or business owner. While WordPress might be the most widely used CMS, with hundreds of thousands of plugins and themes available, this also can result in it being one of the trickiest to optimize correctly as there are so many different variables that could be introducing delays. If you have ever run a website speed test on your WordPress site, then you have probably encountered references to admin-ajax.

February 23, 2016 Read more

5 Ways to Improve Google Ranking in SERPs with a CDN

Everybody wants to rise higher in SERPs and the difference between first and second page rankings in Google can be night and day when it comes to traffic and generating more leads for your business. Web performance plays a crucial role in your strategy to improve Google rankings in SERPs. A content delivery network (CDN) can help you achieve those coveted first page rankings in five different ways; by taking advantage of the HTTPS ranking factor, decreasing your overall load times, "dwell time," bounce rate, and speeding up the indexing of your images.

February 18, 2016 Read more

Exploring the Ins and Outs of CDN Cache

One of the biggest benefits from using content delivery networks (CDNs) is that they cache your files on global CDN servers, also known as edge servers, to ensure fast delivery to your visitors. When your browser requests a file from the CDN, it retrieves it from the cached version on the edge server. If the file is found it is delivered immediately, otherwise the CDN will "pull" the file from your origin server, cache it, and then deliver it.

February 16, 2016 Read more

Block Bad Bots - New Security Feature from KeyCDN

KeyCDN is always looking for ways to improve its service and so we are excited to announce a new security feature, and that is the ability to block bad bots. This allows customers to save on bandwidth costs and block bad bots, spiders, and scrapers from crawling your CDN assets. This feature is now available to all customers and can be enabled from the KeyCDN dashboard. No more bots draining your credits!

February 9, 2016 Read more

Joomla Security - Complete 10 Step Guide

Joomla is a free open source content management system (CMS), built on a MVC framework. It is currently the 2nd most widely used CMS on the internet at 2.6%. While that doesn't sound like a lot, that is is still millions of businesses and blogs that have chosen to power their websites with Joomla. As with any major platform, additional security concerns always present themselves. Your risk of attack is greater and vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered or exploited.

February 2, 2016 Read more

CDN Infographic - Why You Need a CDN Solution

There are many reasons why it is beneficial to implement a CDN solution. From performance benefits, SEO advantages, scalability, reliability, security, and more. We put together an infographic of the top 10 reasons why a CDN (content delivery network) can help you succeed on your next project! 10 Reasons why you need a CDN solution You can grab the embed code for the CDN Infographic above from Visually. 1. Traditional web hosts can't keep up Web Hosts will always have one disadvantage, and that is the distance to the user.

January 21, 2016 Read more