CDNs & Subdomains for Speed

  • Hello. I’m Joseph and could do with some help and support.

    I’m building a site which is going to be a Portfolio and Blog which will have a large amount of images used. My theme is responsive and has quite a lot of JS files. I also have W3TC being used. Google PageSpeed currently rests at 88 Desktop, 75 Mobile but it is a new install and Blog Posts will be on the site soon so I’m optimising from now rather than halfway down the line.

    To make it quicker I want to upload files into a subdomain and to make it quicker still I want other files to be hosted by a CDN.

    What’s the best way to do this? It’s a new install so redirects aren’t going to happen but I’m attempting to keep costs to nothing so I’m thinking CloudFlare Free Plan.

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  • Just a quick note that you probably don’t want to stack CDNs/caching like that for two primary reasons:

    1. You’ll increase the risk of a conflict between the services.
    2. You’ll have something additional to remember if you’re having items cached at multiple services. If you change a file, for example, you may have to clear something at multiple services.

    Thread Starter thetruejoe90

    (@thetruejoe90)

    I’ve decided to just upload all images into a subdomain and for the whole site to go through CloudFlare rather than having bits here and bits there.

    I’m just having the classic “Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content” issue at the moment whilst using CloudFlare and W3 Total Cache.

    Site is lovely and fast at the moment and I’ve optimised quite reasonably at the moment but this is the last puzzle and this is the one that’ll cause me to lose hair!

    “Site is lovely and fast at the moment and I’ve optimised quite reasonably at the moment but this is the last puzzle and this is the one that’ll cause me to lose hair!”
    Glad to hear. Some other quick tips for using WordPress with CloudFlare should help you even more.

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