According to the Research, if your web pages take longer than 5 seconds to load, on average you'll lose 50% of your primary audience and have up to 80% less recurring visitors.
The content delivery network is a network of geographically distributed server that delivers pages and other web content to a user, based on his/her geographic location, the origin of the webpage and the content delivery server. Each CDN node catches the static content of a website like images, JavaScript and other structural components. When the user request for the website, the nearest node to the user’s geographic location will deliver the static content, resulting into the shortest distance for the data to travel therefore providing the fastest site experience.
Let’s make it little simpler to understand. Assume that you have a website hosted in Mumbai, India. As we all know that websites don’t exist physically. It exists on the internet and the internet exists everywhere. So basically, the website and its media assets are on the internet and based somewhere!
When a user in the same or nearest part of the geography accesses the webpage in the browser, it is basically calling upon those assets to assemble in a view in front of the user. The website will run fast as visitors are from similar geography e.g. Delhi or Chennai etc. But if you have visitors coming from an entirely different region like Tokyo, Dhaka, Kolkata or maybe New York, that’s a lot of distance for that content to travel and thus speed will not be as fast as you experience it to be. Secondly, if you have a surge of traffic to your website, regardless of location, that’s a lot of weight on any one server location. This is where a CDN comes in.
CDN services are proved to be effective in speeding the delivery of content of websites with high traffic and websites that have global reach. It prevents site crashes during huge traffic by distributing bandwidth across multiple servers instead of allowing one server to handle all traffic. While CDNs are an appropriate solution for most of the websites looking for speed improvement, not every site necessarily needs one.
Advantages of a CDN
CDN’s are utilized widely by social media networks, media houses, e-commerce platforms, travel sites etc. to serve content quickly to their users based in different geographic locations. Following are few important advantages of using CDN…
1. Ensures faster delivery of content to the user
2. CDN’s can be integrated with cloud models for scalability and availability
3. Improves user experience by handling peak time loads
4. It addresses data integrity and privacy concerns
5. It also blocks data scrappers and other forms of spammers hitting the server
CDN’s are paid, third-party services and part of organization’s optimization strategy. Today, as more aspects of daily life move online, organizations use the content delivery network to accelerate static content, dynamic content, mobile content, e-commerce transactions, video, voice, game and so on.
What is CMS?
CMS stands for Content Management System and it’s a computer application used for creating and managing digital content. This is done by adding, editing or deleting content that is to be published on a website. Earlier, this computer application was used to manage documents and local computer files, however, most of CMS nowadays are designed to manage the content on the websites.
Each CMS also provides a web publishing tool that allows one or more users to publish updates live on the websites. Technically speaking, content management system is made up of two core parts namely A) A Content Management Application (CMA) – that allows you to actually add and manage content to your site B) A Content Delivery Application (CDA) – is the backend process that takes the content you input in the CMA, stores it properly, and makes it visible to your visitors. These two components are integrated together in a CMS to streamline the web development process.
As we all know that it’s not that difficult to build a website however its maintenance is definitely a tedious and complicated task. It would get particularly difficult when the site had many pages. If the client made the request to update a phone number or address on one page, the technical team need to make that change on all pages of the website. Such a minor change will cost lots of effort for things that didn’t add too much value. By deploying CMS, these minuscule tasks can be done in a minute or so. Change it in one place, and it gets reflected on all pages.
There are many such advantages of using a content management system (CMS). For many small, medium and large enterprises, CMS is the heart of their organization digital presence. It empowers the organizations to deploy a range of documents types and contents on a website and then modify and expand the information posted by themselves without the need of a web programmer to setup the site and do the updates.
The principal functions of most CMS applications include Storing, Indexing, format management, publishing, reporting, access control, format management etc. On the top of it, CMS also includes the following features:
1. It offers SEO friendly features
2. It provides extended functionality using a large number of plugins and extensions
3. Customizable templates to manage the content presentation
4. Versioning and work flow management
5. Developer and community support
The function and utility of CDN and CMS are desirable for fast, seamless and superior user experience. With rising internet population and content consumption, it has become almost necessary for the large organization to deploy its services.
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