Passport to the Web
CDNetworks is fanatical about Web Performance and we combine this with our expertise of regional markets. In this blog we’ll discuss many topics including business and marketing topics like emerging market strategies (e.g. China, Russia) and deep dive into technical topics including end user experience, web acceleration best practices, and other issues seen by our customers. We hope that this blog will help us to better connect with you and you with us and that you will find our postings relevant, informative, and actionable.
Understanding Web Performance Test Results Part 1
So you’re comparing two or more CDN solutions and they’ve all offered you website performance test results, extolling the virtues of their particular solutions. But you’re not necessarily an expert in web technologies, let alone CDN technology, so how can you trust what the sales reps are telling you? How do you interpret the results [...]
Travel Website Performance: Optimizing Web Infrastructure
In part one of this five part series, I provided details on how to identify the three primary components of delays with the end-user experience and the importance of understanding where the delays occur. In this post, I cover optimizing your travel and tourism website infrastructure. Although Internet speeds are quick, distance is still an [...]
Challenges of Performance Testing for China CDN Vendors
It’s a tired scenario played out in weekly website performance meetings: How can we reduce the dramatic amount of latency for China end users, offices and remote employees while our application is hosted outside the “Great Firewall of China”? For those who have spent the time researching the complexities of website hosting in China, the [...]
Travel Website Performance: Vital Methods for Improvements
With competition among travel and tourism websites so fierce, many sites are pushing the envelope beyond engaging, rich content to deliver ever more customized, useful information to retain eyeballs and increase conversion rates. Additionally, travelers now have more choices than ever. As they grow savvier about online travel planning, visitors are demanding more inspiring experiences, [...]
Web Performance Optimization | Preparing for Cyber Monday Traffic
Over the years online sales have dramatically increased going into the Christmas shopping season, with consumers expected to do 36% of their holiday shopping online this year. Shop.org’s eHoliday survey found that 68% of online retailers expect their company’s online sales to grow at least 15 percent or more compared to last holiday season. Retail [...]
Understanding the Cloud | Prevent Website Crashes with Cloud Services
There continues to be much ado about the cloud. Promises abound of lower infrastructure costs, lower IT support costs, better scalability, and better reliability, to name a few. But just because something is “in the cloud” doesn’t mean you should be cloudy about how it works. It is a dangerous practice to believe your site [...]
CDN World Summit or Telco CDN World Summit
I recently attended the CDN World Summit in London. During the opening session, the moderator asked for a show of hands to count the types of event participants in the room. 90 percent of the responses were telco operators researching CDN solutions. The other 10 percent included a few pure-play CDNs (like CDNetworks), several content [...]
Disaster Preparedness is Inherent in CDNs
CDNs minimize the need for “Website Disaster Recovery”. If you are well prepared for IT disasters, then you don’t need to waste unnecessary energy recovering from disasters. An unprecedented storm hit the Northeast recently, causing widespread outages across half-dozen states and leaving many businesses and families with substantial loss and damage. With about 1 million [...]
Facebook SSL Mandate: What is SSL?
Privacy and security is a critical concern among today’s Web business owners and their end users. The recent mandate by Facebook that all custom tabs on fan pages must have an SSL certificate is a testimony of that. SSL is a standardized protocol that provides privacy and integrity between two applications communicating using TCP/IP. One [...]
Global Internet Speedup Initiative: A Look Under the Hood
You have probably heard about it – the Global Internet Speedup Initiative. If you are already using a CDN provider, you are probably wondering if and how this can have any impact on your website speed and application performance. And what has DNS got to do with all of this anyway? In order to understand [...]
