Content delivery networks help webmasters increase their site load times. According to David Henzel of CDN NetDNA, this has a number of advantages, for example, site acceleration has a direct impact on a site’s conversion rate. It does this by hosting your site’s heavy content, like images, on local servers. This means that a user in San Francisco does not have to wait for a video from India to travel halfway across the world before they can see it.
CDN’s like NetDNA also give sites another big advantage: SEO. Google and other search engines favor sites with fast load times, which means that videos and large images could slow down a site. However, they only count for search engine load time if they’re on the same domain as the main website. By using a content delivery network, you’re hosting the video on another domain so Google does not count it against how long it takes for your site to load.
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