Level 3 Communications Blog
A CDN (Content Delivery network) means different things to different people. The word is used in many different contexts in a way that can confuse. That confusion is partly understandable because most CDNs utilise many different types of technology. So I thought I’d try and explain what a comprehensive CDN, like ours, does. What follows [...]
I recently came across this article from GigaOm about CDN architecture and its “scary future”, revealing insights from a paper published in 2010. The whole thing made me feel like I’d been transported back to the mid 1990s. A world where according to Wikipedia we were wearing “hippie-style floral dresses, turtleneck shirts, lace blouses, conch [...]
Your website that is. How fast should web pages load? There is a great discussion here that shows that, while there are no standards, there is potentially a maximum load time of 0.25 seconds. That’s the time it takes people to see something and then take action. Right now the research shows that the expected [...]
