Increase performance: globally-distributed CDN
Static assets are now loaded not from one location as they were before, but from many geographically distributed servers on our content delivery network (CDN).
What changed:
1. Improved website load times, especially for locations remote from the USA
2. Improved website security and stability
3. Improved widget load time
4. Website size has decreased due to compression and other optimizations
5. Improved reuse of cached assets that makes the next websites built with SpreadSimple load faster if a user opened at least one other SpreadSimple website recently
6. Dashboard opening and operating times have significantly accelerated
Does this mean that all sites will now receive an “A” performance grade?
The geographically distributed assets are very important, but it's not the only thing affecting the website performance. Your site's loading speed will still be highly dependent on images, their size and quantity, the number of third-party services you load, combinations of included options, and many other factors.
Still, this update is very important and we'll keep optimizing the website speed.
Performance Update report:
We already received our users' feedback confirming the speed increase.
And we measured performance metrics from various locations using GTMetrix to see the changes ourselves. The results showed a 40-90% performance increase, depending on the website and server location.
You can find some of these numbers here
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Increase performance: globally-distributed CDN