Cloudflare 301 TrainingCloudflare 301 shows you how to use Cloudflare, the freemium website security and speed solution. You really need to use Cloudflare to stand between your website and your end users. It is a CDN (“Content Delivery Network”). It’s available at no charge and keeps scammers from taking over your site. Not only that; it has servers around the world, and your visitors will actually visit the copy of your site on the server that is geographically closest to them, which speeds up delivery of your content to them. There is a free version of Cloudflare as well as... [...]

A content delivery network, or content distribution network, is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. Semrush contributor Erika Varagouli has published an in-depth article on Content Delivery Networks and how they can affect your websites. She says, “CDNs can read your IP address and determine your location on the network. When a user loads a web page, the closest CDN sends a cached version of the web page’s content through to the user’s web browser. Image: Global Dots Loading the cached version web page can decrease your page load speed and increase... [...]