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 3
Last time, I wrote about two of the major decisions you will confront in crafting a testing strategy: testing cacheable versus non-cacheable content and using backbone or last mile testing. In this installment, I cover a few miscellaneous “gotcha”s to be aware of, both before and after running your tests: the effect of the DNS [...]
CDNs and Net Neutrality
Imagine a world in which local municipalities erect blockades on highways to purposely slow down traffic. They then charge drivers and automakers a fee for removing the blockades so that they can use the highways without obstruction. Most people would be outraged if this practice were ever to come to fruition. But wait a minute… [...]
Understanding Web Performance Test Results Part 2
Last time, I discussed a few important considerations when evaluating performance test results from multiple CDNs: backbone versus last-mile testing and why the selection of performance monitoring company matters. In this installment, I’m focusing on two related issues: testing the performance of dynamic versus cacheable content and running full-page versus single-object tests. Testing Dynamic Content [...]
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 [...]
