Content Delivery Networks – Everything You Need to Know

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... [...]