How would this affect my SEO?

You can prevent Google from indexing Cloudflare Images as mentioned in the docs here.

Best regards,
Anton

Many thanks @vanyukov

I guess I need to add check “Serve from custom domain” but… then should I add the main domain or maybe a subdomain? If it is the 2nd case, do I need to point the name servers also of that subdomain to the Cloudfare name servers? Im a little bit lost with that and would be fantastic a detailed guide like this one for noobies: https://vcore.au/tutorials/how-to-setup-cloudflare-images-plugin/

Also, my images are being correctly uploaded to Cloudfare, which is great, but the URL of them are still pointing to my main site (when I click on “Edit” to see the URL). Shouldn’t point directly to /cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/… in the media section (not just in the front end)?

Best regards.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by imborx.

For the “Serve from custom domain” you can use any domain/subdomain, as long as it’s connected to Cloudflare. You don’t need to add any additional DNS zones, it will just work.

The images on the wp-admin side will be served from the local site, no benefit in using Cloudflare Images on the admin side.

Best regards,
Anton

Hi Anton, so just to clarify:

1. I pointed an external domain to Cloudfare (like: mywebsite.com). If I type mywebsite.com in the “Serve from custom domain”, Cloudfare images will show my domain in the URL? Is there any advantage for using a subdomain like cdn.mywebsite.com?
2. I mean, I used AWS S3 before and after uploading an image in WordPress, If I edit the image and look into the source, I get something like: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bucket/path/image.png. In this case, If I check/edit the image from the “Media” tab in /wp-admin, I get the original WordPress URL (mywebsite.com/wp-content/images/…) so it looked to me that the image it is being stored on my site AND also on Cloudfare. I just only would like to store them in Cloudfare in order to save disk space. Can you double check if I should get directly the Cloudfare URL in the image and how can I be sure that the images aren’t being stored on my hosting?

Many thanks!

@imborx,

1. I don’t think there’s any noticeable improvements with a custom domain. Previously, additional domains allowed browsers to bypass concurrency limitations. But that’s not a thing anymore with HTTP/2. And, I believe, with a custom domain you can control cache expiry values for images via the settings for that domain in Cloudflare.
2. With S3 there’s a bit of a different mechanic with offloading. Many plugins that I’ve seen will fully offload the image, meaning that there’s no source files on your site at all. In this case the wp-admin does indeed display the S3 variant. However, Cloudflare Images is a relatively new service and it’s not yet suitable for full offloading (my personal opinion), because it does not offer similar level of control over files compared with S3. Having said that, my plugin does allow “full” offloading. So if you have a backup, and can easily restore, it is possible to fully offload with Cloudflare Images as well.

On my personal sites, I use Cloudflare Images and I set the custom domain to the main site domain, so my image URLs match my other asset URLs.

Best regards,
Anton

Hi again,

1. I though it was nice to serve them from a custom domain for SEO reasons. Do I just need to follow this and it doesn’t matter if I use a custom domain or not?
2. So using your plugin, I’m fully offloading the images and don’t hosting them on my hosting provider when I upload an image, right? It was confuse for me to view the original URL of the image after uploading to wordpress, that’s why I thought I was hosting them in Cloudfare and in my hosting at the same time. So if I check the image in Cloudfare it isn’t being stored on my site, right? Like it’s just in one place or in the other I guess.

1. I’m not sure there are SEO benefits. There could be, I just don’t have enough SEO expertise to give a definitive answer here. Sorry
2. By default, images are not fully offloaded, there’s still a copy left on your site.

Best regards,
Anton

Hi Anton,

1. I see. I’ll keep investigating this.
2. So can I remove the images from my site and keep them server from Cloudfare?

*Something like WP Offload Media Lite offers would be great: https://i.gyazo.com/214c2360d1fce40583bfbc9665d2a53e.png

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by imborx.

@imborx,

You can enable this feature, however, there’s a big disclaimer in the plugin that this feature is in beta. Please make sure you have a backup of your media library. I do not recommend removing the images from your local site. Cloudflare Images and Amazon S3 not yet comparable in terms of storage capabilities.

Best regards,
Anton

Hi @vanyukov,

Thanks for the answer… but how can I activate the feature you mentioned to automatically remove the images from my site and upload just to Cloudflare when I upload a picture in my website?

Thanks!

Hi @imborx ,

To allow full offloading, you will need to enable the Full offload option in the plugin settings. At the moment, there is no way to auto offload all the images, as this is still in beta, only manual offloading of individual images from the media library.

Best regards,
Anton