CDN Selection and Optimization
Are You Selecting the Right CDN Vendor? Is the CDN Service Optimized for Your Users?
Your users’ proximity to your Web servers has a significant impact on response times. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) let you deploy your content (or entire Website) across multiple, geographically dispersed servers to make your pages load faster for end-users.
But which CDN should you choose? How do you optimize your CDN?
CDNs can distribute static and multimedia content to accelerate delivery of your Websites and supplement your infrastructure to help you reach far-off visitor locales. Companies need to choose CDNs carefully and objectively measure CDN performance to quantify the benefits that each CDN provides to its end-users in key geographies. You need to evaluate CDN performance to be sure the network solves your specific problem and validates your investment. Once a CDN is selected, you need to ensure both ongoing service delivery and Service Level Agreement compliance. It is important to establish whether, over time, the CDN continues to provide a significant improvement in performance for all your users.
With the Gomez Platform companies can improve their CDN selection and optimization process by:
- Baselining the performance of Web applications, streaming content, and Mobile applications before making a commitment to a CDN
- Quantifying objectively the benefits of CDN investments for your key content and geographies
- Monitoring CDN performance and being instantly alerted if performance dips below thresholds
- Optimizing application and CDN performance for key geographies and applications
- Validating ongoing CDN service delivery and SLA compliance
Even though CDN-delivered content does not come from your data center, the performance of that content reflects on your Website, business and brand. Ensure that your Content Delivery Network provider delivers as consistently as your Website does — and that it meets your visitors’ expectations.
