Benefits of a global CDN 

Having a CDN in front of your web site or app brings a wide variety of benefits, and the list keeps expanding over time. From improved performance, better connectivity, improved SEO ratings to better customer engagement and increase in sales, bringing a CDN into the mix of your online project is a no-brainer. 

Content is closer to your end users 

A content delivery network is typically spread across the globe – its Points of Presence are everywhere and thus much closer to your end users compared to the origin server where your web site or app resides. This can significantly reduce the time it takes for the content to reach end users, thus significantly improving the overall user experience. 

Connectivity is improved 

A global CDN has a lot of peering agreements with many datacenter operators, ISPs and other network organizations around the world. This brings twofold benefits to you – a CDN can typically reach your origin server in an instant to fetch the content it then caches on its network of caching servers, and on other hand, it can deliver that content to an end user using more optimal network paths, therefore decreasing the loading times. 

Content is optimized on the fly 

Once a CDN has cached the content from your origin server, it can apply all kinds of various optimizations before delivering it to the target audience. Basic optimizations such as Gzip or Brotli compression can significantly reduce the file size of static assets, speeding up delivery and reducing the network bandwidth you have to pay. Modern CDN solutions also come with improved and much more performant TLS stacks, HTTP protocols such as HTTP/3 and many other low-level optimizations that drive performance up even further without