I have a blog which gets a lot of traffic and and is ranking pretty well. However when I check Google webmasters site performance I can see Google sees the blog as being slow compared to most other websites. We all know how important speed is nowadays. Not only for users experience, but also for the google algorithm in search engine results position (SERP).
Chatting to others on the internet marketing forum, warriorforum.com I got a great lead on a new company to help speed up your website called CloudFlare.
My CloudFlare Review
CloudFlare is supposed to be different from a content delivery network (CDN) like maxCDN or amazon cloud. I actually found it too complicated for me when trying to get a CDN up and running on the blog. CloudFlare is so much simplier. Oh and it is free to use the basic service.
If you want there is a pro service option for $20 p/m which will give you your stats within 15 minutes not every 24 hours like the free one.
With CloudFlare you do need to know where to find your nameservers which moving host companies recently did teach me. If you use big hosting companies like hostgator that is easy. There are tutorials and the live support with hostgator are phenomenal.
CloudFlare automatically scanned my domain for the info it needed and I just manually entered the two nameservers of the current hosting company under “NS”.
Cloudflare then gave me two new nameservers from them to enter in my DNS control panel. I did that and viola all done.
Checking whatsmydns.net I coudl see within in 20 minutes different servers around the world were already picking up the new cloudflare nameservers. So I will be waiting 24 hours to see the stats from CloudFlare for my domain. I’ll add it as an update when I see it.
Some added benefits that CloudFlare advertise is that they will protect your domain email from spam bots, protect from spam comments and speed up your website loading times.
It looks like you can still use CloudFlare in conjunction with a wordpress cache plugin like WP Supercache or W3TC.
You also don’t change hosting companies or domain name registers. All you do is add the new CloudFlare nameservers and your done.
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