CDNs are common - but are they really necessary? Is a single origin the performance pitfall many think it is?
      • Scoopta@programming.dev
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        2 months ago

        No I haven’t 🤔. That’s an interesting idea, I don’t have a blog or talk about my projects really. They’re just something for me to do and learn. I guess I just kinda assumed that since I’m using it as a learning experience I’m not really qualified to write about it

    • cosmicbytes@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      I thought the point of a CDN is that its available at edge locations. Do you have multiple servers geographically dispersed? If so, can you explain what else makes it a CDN?

      Sorry if my comment comes off as snarky, when I read it, it sounds like that, but I promise it is not my intention!

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, it’s always a bit weird to see companies using CDNs to push down page load times, but then their mostly static site is implemented with an SPA framework or such.

    I guess, it doesn’t matter for SEO how long it takes to render, does it?

    • Jade@programming.devOP
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      2 months ago

      It matters a little bit - Google measures performance on real devices through CrUX, and that feeds into their rankings - but not much. There’s no real incentive to go for a Lighthouse performance score above 80 or so.

      • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Agreed. I’m an SEO and I haven’t seen meaningful ranking adjustment by fixing page speed scores myself, but others may depending on the competition level and niches.

        It’s meant more as a minor signal and a tie breaker. If SEO is roughly the same for two competing companies but one has page speeds of 2 second load times and the other 5 second, then the 2 second load time page may get a bump above the other 5 second one.

        Now, I say MAY because there’s a lot that goes into it and maybe one brand has better on page conversion rates over the other one or something else that might affect things.

  • draughtcyclist@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    In my experience, the web application firewall product most cdn’s offer is typically more valuable. Even then, only for transactional web pages.

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Depends on the content. My employers sites are a good mix of images, static, and dynamic content, and we rely heavily on Akamai. Their caching of our images offloads a huge amount of work from our origins. We also use their Image Manager tool to optimize a lot of the images seamlessly, which adds further optimization. Their WAF and other security tools are also very impressive.