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Image CDN - Speed up the Delivery of Your Most Important Asset

Images are an integral part of the web today and are used in all sorts of different ways. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, that is probably true, as long as they don't slow down your website to the point where you are losing visitors. When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way.

July 11, 2019 Read more

KeyCDN Launches WebP Caching

WebP has become a popular image format. Therefore, we've developed a solution to even better integrate WebP into our service. We're happy to announce that WebP caching has landed! The new feature integrates into the existing CDN and is available to all customers. We offer both a one click solution with no change required on your origin server as well as an approach where you can deliver the WebP assets from your origin server.

June 6, 2019 Read more

KeyCDN Launches Image Processing

We're thrilled to announce that we've added the Image Processing feature! This new feature is available to all customers, is fully integrated into our existing network, and allows comprehensive on the fly image transformation and optimization. Images can now be altered in real time with simple query parameters and will then be delivered by our CDN. It's no longer necessary to store several variations of the same image on your server.

May 14, 2019 Read more

KeyCDN Launches IPv6 Support

As the amount of devices connecting online continues to grow, so does our need for IP addresses. That's why the Internet is currently in a transition period of migrating from IPv4 to the newest version of the Internet Protocol: IPv6. Today, we're excited to announce that KeyCDN now fully supports IPv6! This new version of the Internet protocol has been automatically added to all Zones. What is IPv6? IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) is the latest internet protocol designed to replace IPv4 due to the network shortage of addresses.

November 22, 2018 Read more

Using a Secure CDN to Accelerate Your Content

Security is very important to us here at KeyCDN which is why we have various security features to help not only protect your content but also prevent unauthorized access to your CDN account. In this post we'll go over what makes KeyCDN a secure CDN and which features we provide to increase the security of your content and account. The importance of security According to a survey conducted by TeleSign, 40% of users said they had a security incident in the last year, meaning they had an account hacked, password stolen, or were given a notice that their personal information had been compromised.

November 8, 2018 Read more

KeyCDN Launches HTTP/2 Push Support

The ability to push assets to a browser before it even knows that it needs them was one of the abilities that HTTP/2 introduced. This is known as HTTP/2 Server Push, which can be quite useful in minimizing the number of round trips, and thus overall wait time, incurred by a visitor. Today, we're excited to announce that KeyCDN now supports HTTP/2 Push. This will allow users to configure their origin server in a way that defines which assets should be pushed along with the initial HTML document.

April 5, 2018 Read more

The Importance of Using a CDN for Gaming

Anyone who has ever worked on an online game knows how challenging it is to consistently deliver content and patches to players across the globe. Whether it's a simple puzzle app or an MMORPG, games tend to require a lot of resources and maintenance. While technologies like 4K and ultra HD are facilitating exciting innovations in gaming, download sizes keep increasing exponentially, which has created many new challenges on the backend.

February 1, 2018 Read more

Why Use a CDN? Here Are 10 Data-Driven Reasons

Perhaps not to anyone's surprise, but here at KeyCDN, one of the most frequently asked questions we get from visitors is "Why Use a CDN?" A CDN has a lot of other advantages besides simply speeding up your content delivery. Today we want to dive more in-depth into answering that question and share with you 10 data-driven reasons why you should be using a content delivery network (CDN) if you aren't already and how it can help your website stay ahead of the competition.

September 15, 2016 Read more

The Lowdown on CDN Dynamic Content

Typically when hear or read about a content delivery network, they are always talking about how your static assets (such as JavaScript, CSS, images) are being delivered from the CDN edge server's cache. This is definitely a typical use case for a CDN. A common misconception though is that CDNs can't handle caching dynamic content, which is not always the case. The term "dynamic" though might be a little different than what you think.

August 4, 2016 Read more

Mobile CDN - Speeding up Content Delivery on All Devices

When it comes to web performance, people are always discussing different optimizations in which you can speed up your website. One aspect, unfortunately, that is quite frequently overlooked is how mobile devices come into this equation. In today's post, we want to show you why it is important to utilize, what we call a mobile CDN, and how it can help ensure fast load times across all devices, whether they be desktops, laptops, or mobile phones.

July 28, 2016 Read more

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