Blog - KeyCDN

Tips for Improving CSS and JS Animation Performance

Custom animations can help a website stand out among the competition, but poorly optimized assets can lead to performance issues that ultimately drive away users. If any of your animations render at less than 60 frames per second, then your visitors will notice, and the user experience will suffer. This guide explains how to keep your CSS and JavaScript animations running smoothly for everyone. CSS animations vs JavaScript animations Animations made with JavaScript are sometimes called imperative animations, and those made with CSS are called declarative animations.

August 23, 2018 Read more

18 Tips on How to Speed up WordPress

WordPress is an amazing CMS platform, but it can also be quite slow if not optimized correctly. In this guide, we will show you how to speed up WordPress by sharing our web performance strategies and recommendations. Businesses all over the world rely on WordPress to power their websites. It is used by over half of those that use a content management system and according to ManageWP, that is over 74 million websites that are currently using WordPress.

August 16, 2018 Read more

100+ Awesome Web Development Tools and Resources

The best and worst thing about being a web developer is that the web is constantly changing. While this is exciting, it also means that web developers must always be proactive in learning new techniques or programming languages, adapting to changes, and be willing and eager to accept new challenges. This could include tasks such as adapting existing frameworks to meet business requirements, testing a website to identify technical problems, or optimizing and scaling a site to perform better with the backend infrastructure.

August 2, 2018 Read more

8 Video Optimization Tips for Faster Loading Times

Adding videos to your website can sometimes be a double-edged sword. Web users love high-resolution videos, but if your website isn't optimized to handle them, such content can cause performance problems. This guide to video optimization explains how to make sure your multimedia content is increasing conversions instead of driving away users. Why is video optimization important? Offering multimedia content is a great way to keep users engaged, which is why more developers are adding videos to their websites.

July 26, 2018 Read more

KeyCDN Launches New POP in Auckland

Today we're excited to announce that we've launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network's content delivery speeds. Our newest point of presence has been launched in Auckland, New Zealand! The new POP is in production and has been automatically added to all existing Zones. POP in Auckland further expands content delivery to New Zealand With the introduction of a POP in Auckland, our presence in Oceania becomes even stronger.

July 19, 2018 Read more

What Are Service Workers and How They Help Improve Performance

Service workers allow developers to manage resource caching more efficiently so that users don't experience interruptions even if they disconnect from the internet. This guide will explain how a service worker can propel your web app's performance to new heights. What are service workers? A service worker is a specific type of JavaScript worker, which is a script that runs in the background of the user's browser. Service workers are like proxy servers stationed between your app, the user's browser and the network.

July 12, 2018 Read more

KeyCDN Launches New POPs in Melbourne and Perth

Expanding globally and providing our customers with a growing network of POPs to help improve the speed of their content is always at the top of our minds, here at KeyCDN. That's why today we'd like to announce that we've just launched two new points of presence (POP) in Melbourne and Perth, Australia! These new POPs are in production and have been automatically added to all existing Zones. POPs in Melbourne and Perth expand content delivery in Australia We've had a presence in Australia for some time now with our POP in Sydney.

July 5, 2018 Read more

An Overview of the RAIL Performance Model

How do you measure web performance? Whether you care more about speed or image quality, you should always consider multiple metrics when optimizing your web apps. Fortunately, the RAIL model provides an accurate and comprehensive way to evaluate the user experience so that you can make meaningful improvements. What is the RAIL model? First things first, what exactly is the RAIL performance model? While getting your initial page load time down is essential to reducing bounce rates, that's only half of the battle.

June 28, 2018 Read more

Migrating Our Washington POP to New York

Today, we're excited to announce that we've migrated our Washington POP location to New York. We've done this for a variety of reasons which we'll further discuss in this article. However, we're happy to say that the migration process went smoothly and that all customers will now automatically be able to begin delivering content from our stronger POP in New York. Why migrate to New York? Washington worked well as a POP location for a while and speeds were fast, however, we saw that there was room for improvement.

May 17, 2018 Read more

User Timing API - Measuring User Experience Performance

Page load time, start render time and speed index are all used to quantify a web application's performance, but these metrics provide a very limited perspective of the user experience. Such numbers only tell you when everything on a page is finished loading; they don't take into account which content is most important to the user. Another way to measure an app's performance is to pick out the most important design elements on each page and record timestamps to determine how long users are waiting to see the content that matters most.

May 10, 2018 Read more