Unless you are using top hosting companies (tested) that are capable of speeding up your website and blog, setting up your site or speed is what will make Google your friend, I mean, by ranking higher via mobile friendliness and otherwise.


Have you ever noticed why some big websites are super-fast in terms of loading time? It’s because they use the best Content Delivery Networks.




Since, I am not willing to list out the premium tools, we can go ahead and use the free ones. And one of them is Cloudflare.

What is Content Delivery Network

A content delivery network (CDN) is a collection of web servers distributed across multiple locations to deliver content more efficiently to users.

The server selected for delivering content to a specific user is typically based on a measure of network proximity. For example, the server with the fewest network hops or the server with the quickest response time is chosen.

Facts about Content Delivery Network

The user's proximity to your web server has an impact on response times. Deploying your content across multiple, geographically dispersed servers will make your pages load faster from the user's perspective. But where should you start?

Depending on the application, changing the architecture could include daunting tasks such as synchronizing session state and replicating database transactions across server locations.
Attempts to reduce the distance between users and your content could be delayed by, or never pass, this application architecture step.

Remember that 80-90% of the end-user response time is spent downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. This is the Performance Golden Rule.

Rather than starting with the difficult task of redesigning your application architecture, it's better to first disperse your static content. This not only achieves a bigger reduction in response times, but it's easier thanks to content delivery networks.

Some large Internet companies own their own CDN, but it's cost-effective to use a free CDN service provider like Cloudflare for a start.


Why use Cloudflare?

#1. Cloudflare will speed up your site.
#2. Cloudflare will protect your site from hackers as well.

How to set up Cloudflare

#1. Sign up at www.cloudflare.com
#2. Verify your accounts and re-login.
#3. Copy them out.
#4. Go to Cloudflare > Go to Add Site > Enter your website name > Click on Next
#5. Select the plan – free plan.
#6. Change name servers.

You will get this…

Change your Nameservers
To activate yourwebsite.com you must point your nameservers (DNS) to Cloudflare. In order to start receiving
all the speed and security benefits of Cloudflare, you’ll need to change the nameservers configured
at your domain registrar to the ones below:

hera.ns.cloudflare.com >
ram.ns.cloudflare.com >

#7. Go to your hosting account and get your nameservers. To get it easily, check the email your hosting company sent to your when you first registered, you will find your Nameservers there. Login to your account to confirm...

#8. Inside your hosting account/dashboard, copy the first one and replace at the first and the second at the second and you are done…
First one - bart.ns.cloudflare.com
Second one - pola.ns.cloudflare.com

Save your changes.

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your registrar to process this change. Once processed, your site will become active on Cloudflare. You will receive an email to confirm when your status is updated.

Bonus:
If you're not sure who your registrar is, you can use WHOIS.


See attached images for help...

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Informative and explanatory. Thanks.

Yes, Cloudlare CDN is the best free tools out there. My website design agency have been using Cloudflare since we launch last year.

We also recommend to our clients. Good sharing btw.