Our free content delivery network makes your website load quickly, wherever your users are. It includes a suite of speed-boosting features that will accelerate your website.
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How a CDN works
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is all about making a website load faster, wherever the users are in the world.
This is done by storing (caching) copies of your website on servers at the network edge.
Your users will navigate your site more efficiently, wherever they are.
While it’s good for users, it also helps your website in other ways. Search engines such as Google love fast-loading sites so there’s an SEO benefit to having a CDN.
Our free CDN
Our CDN offers the same edge caching features as paid CDNs from providers like Cloudflare.
You can purge the cache in a click to make instant updates. Nuisance visitors can be blocked by IP address or country.
Stay on top of site performance and monitor for problems with our comprehensive set of statistics. You can make informed decisions on traffic trends and monitor for issues following site changes.
The Free Global CDN from a UK Company
Fast loading websites anywhere
Our global network will edge-cache full pages close to where the user is based. It works with our StackCache WordPress module – no plugins required – as well as any other software that sets public cache control headers. So it works for any site.
The same network as the web giants
Our CDN makes use of the same internet exchange points (neutral data centres) used by AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and many other leading tech companies. So JWHost customers get access to enterprise-level connectivity.
Reliability and uptime to improve your website
Improve reliability and uptime of your website, wherever your user is based. As your site is served from data centres close to them, there are fewer ‘hops’ in the network. This means your website will load fast no matter where the user is in the world.
Supercharge your site with our CDN
If your website is data-heavy and bloated, it will load slowly even if you use fast hosting and a CDN. Our Website Acceleration Suite gives you the option to slim-down your data payload, without having an effect on its appearance or function.
Automatic image resizing
Slow-loading images are the bane of website performance. Our image CDN will scan your images and resize them for the appropriate size for mobile and desktop.
Next-Gen image formats
Our image optimisation tools will convert files to fast-loading next-gen image formats like JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP.
Lazy loading
Only load what’s going to be presented to the user immediately: what’s going to be seen first. Your above-the-fold content will appear in a browser more quickly by deferring off-screen images or other non-critical resources.
Image compression
‘Raw’ images often contain information that can be removed or compressed without a visible loss in quality. Our CDN will compress your images ‘on the fly’, saving you time.
Code minification
We can minify and strip whitespace from our code. Our CDN will compress HTML, CSS and JavaScript files to reduce time spent parsing, compiling and executing it. Network payload is reduced, so sites load faster.
One-click optimisation
We give you the tools to get your Google PageSpeed Score to 100/100!
Why use the JWHost CDN?
If your website is data-heavy and bloated, it will load slowly even if you use fast hosting and a CDN. Our Website Acceleration Suite gives you the option to slim-down your data payload, without having an effect on its appearance or function.
While a fast-loading site on desktop is important, mobile devices are now the most common way to access the web. Mobile networks are slower, and phones are less powerful than desktops – so a site that’s fast on a desktop machine can crawl on a phone.
This can impact your bottom line: when page load time increases from 1 second to 5 seconds, the probability of a user abandoning your page rises substantially. That is literally you losing customers just because your site isn’t super fast.
The JWHost CDN reduces latency through its edge caching and optimises your website content for snappy, responsive page loads.
Google’s messaging about site speed couldn’t be more clear: fast sites rank higher, and slow sites may receive a penalty. Site speed has become increasingly important to ranking on all search engines’ results pages.
A search engine wants to be popular. It can only achieve that by giving users results that satisfy them. If you click a link that doesn’t load quickly, you’re more likely to return to the search results and try an alternative. That alternative might be a competitor, and the search engine could rank that competitor higher next time. So you could lose ranking, as well as a sale.
Our CDN and website optimisation tools will improve your websites SEO performance wherever your customers are in the world.
Features at your fingertips
Every website is different, so the JWHost CDN gives you control over every feature, directly from our control panels. All options are there for you to access so you can amplify performance as you need to.
For example, as well as global edge caching, you can control whether images, CSS and JavaScript are cached independently. It includes over 40 different ways to improve your website’s speed.
Preset profiles
If you want a quick fix to boost your website speed, then select our preset ‘One-click Optimisation’ to get your site loading at lightning speed straight away. It’s an option there for those who maybe don’t understand all the tech talk, but want to boost their website performance when it comes to speed.
JWHost paid web hosting is available from £9.99/month
CDN FAQ
Find answers to some frequently asked questions about CDN:
For any company that has an international presence – or wants an international presence – a CDN is important. It means that your website will load fast anywhere in the world. Fast sites lead to more sales and better search performance.
You might think CDN may not be important to you if you’re a local ‘bricks and mortar’ business that only serves your nearby community. That’s understandable, but having a fast site gives you SEO advantages, even locally. So even if you don’t have an international market, it’s still worth activating your free CDN and making use of its website speed acceleration.
We say: since ours is free, use it all the time! There’s no disadvantage to using it, and unlike some providers, the JWHost CDN doesn’t charge you for the bandwidth you use.
The only time you might want to turn off any of the Website Acceleration Suite optimisations are if they interfere with any complex functions on your site. Our friendly support team is here to help if you have any difficulties.
We’re committed to using new technologies to change web hosting for the better. So our free CDN is our way of making our world-class web hosting even better value. If you work better, we work better, so why wouldn’t we want to improve the service we provide to you, for free?