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How to Effectively Monitor and Scale for Website Traffic

Scaling when it pertains to web performance essentially means the ability to support any traffic load. Unfortunately most business owners don't think about this until their website goes down due to heavy traffic. That is why it is very important to plan for scaling and try to anticipate your peak load in advance with performance tools such as real user monitoring, server monitoring, and load testing. Once you know where your load is at you can put measures in place to avoid downtime and frustrated visitors down the road.

December 3, 2015 Read more

10 Tips to Speed up Joomla Performance

Joomla is a free and popular open source content management system (CMS), built on a MVC framework, and used by at least 2.6% of all the websites on the internet. It is used by corporations, online magazines, government applications, small businesses, and all different types of websites. In this post, we will discuss tips on how to speed up Joomla performance to ensure your website keeps running fast, ensuring a good experience for your visitors.

December 1, 2015 Read more

8 Advanced Content Delivery Network Features

Many people enable their content delivery network service and leave it at that. While you might be taking advantage of all the primary CDN benefits, there are additional advanced features you can implement to take your content delivery to the next level. Some of these features can help you harden security on your CDN, lower costs by preventing bandwidth theft, and decrease the load on your origin server. Advanced content delivery network features Below are just a few advanced content delivery network features you may not yet be using.

November 26, 2015 Read more

11 Tips to Speed up Drupal Performance

Drupal is an open source CMS and or framework that is used by at least 1.2% of all the websites on the internet. It powers all types of websites ranging from blogs to corporate and government sites. In this post, we will discuss tips on how to speed up Drupal performance to ensure your website keeps running fast, ensuring a good experience for your visitors. Drupal was originally released in 2001, two years before WordPress was even on the market.

November 17, 2015 Read more

CDN Hosting vs Traditional Web Hosting

There was a time when traditional web hosting had lorded over everything else that happened over the World Wide Web. There were several hosting companies that housed basic as well as corporate websites, which were purely static and comprised of small files that could be viewed and downloaded by users on the internet. But, these days are long gone. Now, the internet has earned the reputation of being the central repository and delivery of personal, corporate and home multimedia content that has revolutionized education and entertainment.

November 11, 2015 Read more

WordPress Cache Plugin - Benchmarking Cache Enabler

KeyCDN released its free WordPress cache plugin, Cache Enabler, because we weren't happy with the current free caching plugins on the marketplace. We have been getting great feedback so far and a lot of you have been asking how Cache Enabler compares to third party caching plugins. Check out our performance benchmarks below that we ran against WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. Our goal was to create a free caching plugin that is super easy to use and is blazing fast!

November 5, 2015 Read more

Web Performance Trends: Speeding up the Web

Welcome to an exciting exploration of the latest trends in web performance and how they are revolutionizing the online experience. In today's fast-paced digital world, where every second counts, users demand lightning-fast websites that load seamlessly and provide a delightful browsing experience. In this article, we will delve into the evolving landscape of web performance, discuss key trends that are shaping the industry, and provide actionable insights to help you optimize your website for speed and efficiency.

November 3, 2015 Read more

Free WordPress Cache Enabler Plugin

The WordPress community is very important to us here at KeyCDN, which is why we created a caching plugin called Cache Enabler. It's a lightweight caching plugin for WordPress that makes your website faster by generating static HTML files. Cache Enabler supports converting inline image URLs to WebP and pre-compressing cached pages with Gzip. Why KeyCDN created Cache Enabler Web performance is something we obsess over and we believe that every millisecond counts when reducing site load time.

October 29, 2015 Read more

How to Migrate from HTTP to HTTPS - Complete Guide

With the performance benefits you now get from HTTP/2, there has never been a better time to thinking about moving your site to HTTPS; not to mention the additional security and SEO advantages. Follow our guide below on how to migrate your site from HTTP to HTTPS. Why should you redirect HTTP to HTTPS? As you know Google is pushing hard for HTTPS everywhere so that the web is a safer place.

October 23, 2015 Read more

HTTP/2 Statistics - KeyCDN Report on HTTP/2 Distribution

KeyCDN officially released support for HTTP/2 back in October 2015 and is proud to be among the first CDN providers to offer the new protocol. Speed, stability, and security are of utmost importance to us as we analyze the most efficient ways to better deliver your content. After analyzing the data, we thought we would share with you some HTTP/2 statistics so you can see the distribution across our global network and across the web.

October 20, 2015 Read more