Why is My Website so Slow? It May be Time to Try a CDN
Imagine obsessing over optimizing your web content for search engines only to find that your clever SEO writing has failed to yield more site visits. You Google the relevant keywords you used in your copy only to discover that your beautiful site is nowhere to be seen in the results. You close down your browser and sulk. You have no idea how to attract more visitors.
Then one day, a brutally honest friend of yours texts you and says: “Hey, finally got around to checking out your website. Are you aware that it’s painfully slow?”
Your heart starts pounding. You feel embarrassed. Ashamed. You had no idea. Now you’re frantically trying to figure out how to fix your slow website.
During your research you find there’s virtually no end to the things you could do to try to improve your site speed. Some solutions — like cleaning up the code — might be a little out of your depth. Optimizing your web performance is turning out to be a daunting task.
And yet, a simple solution could be in reach. You might just need a CDN.
Before I get into explaining what a Content Distribution Network is and why you should be using it, let me briefly walk you through some of the main reasons why websites run slowly and what some…
