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18 Tips for Website Performance Optimization

Website performance optimization is always something that should be top priority, especially when there is so much online competition. We have written a lot of performance tutorials over the past couple months, such as how to speed up WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and more. But what if you aren't on any of those platforms? Below are the top 18 optimization tips we recommend, regardless of the platform, if you are looking to optimize your site.

January 19, 2016 Read more

Web Performance: 25+ Experts Share Their Advice and Mistakes

We had a lot of great feedback from the community on our previous post, web performance experts to follow online. We thought we would take it a step further and ask those experts to share their advice and common mistakes that they see people making when it comes to web performance and which optimizations you should spend time prioritizing. Web performance questions We asked each expert to answer the following two questions.

January 14, 2016 Read more

KeyCDN Launches New POP in Brazil

KeyCDN is dedicated to expansion throughout the globe and we are excited to announce our new point of presence (POP) in São Paulo, Brazil! This is our first POP in South America and your visitors in that location should immediately see a dramatic improvement in latency and throughput. The new POP is now in production and has been automatically added to all existing Zones. POP in Brazil extends content delivery to South America KeyCDN is dedicated to providing a strong presence throughout the globe and this new POP in Brazil will be our 24th location.

January 12, 2016 Read more

Complete Guide on Drupal Security

Drupal is an open source CMS and or framework that is used by at least 2.2% of all the websites on the internet, making it the 3rd most widely used CMS in the world. As with any major platform, additional security concerns also present themselves. Your risk of attack is greater and more vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered or exploited. Follow our complete guide below on what you can do to harden your Drupal security and help prevent yourself from getting hacked or becoming a victim of the next brute-force attack.

January 7, 2016 Read more

Website Latency with and Without a Content Delivery Network

When it comes serving up your content around the globe in a fast and efficient manner, website latency becomes very important. We will never be able to get past the fact that there is physical distance involved which causes round trip time delays. However, you can dramatically decrease the latency by implementing a content delivery network (CDN). 50% of your 1-second page load time budget on mobile is taken up by network latency overhead.

January 5, 2016 Read more

KeyCDN Launches New POP in Switzerland

KeyCDN is dedicated to expansion throughout the globe and we are excited to announce our new point of presence (POP) in Zurich, Switzerland! The new POP is now in production and has been automatically added to all existing Zones. This will further improve latency and throughput across Europe. POP in Switzerland speeds up content delivery in Europe KeyCDN is dedicated to providing a strong presence in Europe and this new POP in Switzerland will be our 10th location (23rd globally).

December 21, 2015 Read more

Analyzing HTTPS Performance Overhead

In this post we want to analyze HTTPS performance overhead and hopefully clear up some doubts that you may have had in the past. With best practices in place like early termination, Cache-Control and HTTP/2, factors such as the latency of the TLS handshake and additional roundtrips start becoming things of the past. Newer protocols, better hardware, and faster connections have started making up for these delays. Costs and overhead when switching to HTTPS There is always going to be some https performance overhead and possibly costs when switching to HTTPS, but the question is with today's hardware, connectivity, and new HTTP/2 protocol, is the overhead and or cost even a factor worth considering anymore?

December 17, 2015 Read more

KeyCDN Includes Let's Encrypt Integration - Free SSL Certificates

"HTTPS everywhere" is happening and that is why KeyCDN recently became a sponsor of Let's Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate authority. We have been working very hard behind the scenes and are happy to announce, as of December 2015, that we offer an integration with Let's Encrypt that is available to all KeyCDN customers! What does this mean for you? KeyCDN is excited to be one of the first providers around the globe to offer this integration.

December 14, 2015 Read more

WordPress Security - Complete 17 Step Guide

WordPress is the most popular CMS on the web and is now powering over 26.5% of all websites. Since it holds such a large piece of the market share it brings additional security concerns and increases your risk of attack when vulnerabilities are discovered. Follow our complete guide below on what you can do to harden your WordPress security and help prevent yourself from getting hacked or becoming a victim of the next brute-force attack.

December 10, 2015 Read more

50+ Web Performance Experts to Follow Online

Web performance is very important to us here at KeyCDN; and is what we live and breath on a daily basis. It is crucial to stay up to date with what is happening in the industry around you and so we compiled this list of 50+ web performance experts. 50+ web performance experts To create this list we used things such as impact on the industry, frequency of activity on their blog/third party sites, length of experience and other factors.

December 8, 2015 Read more