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Could you expand? I'm going through this right now and it would probably be useful.
by oneloop 11y ago
Could you expand? I'm going through this right now and it would probably be useful.
- duaneb 11y agoI think he's noting a cdn won't help with low bandwidth on the client end, i.e. assumably cellphone users, which make up a large proportion of the Internet. Only reducing the size of the site would help.
- blakeyrat 11y agoYeah. I think we've all seen sites that use an image CDN to serve up a 4 MB PNG, which ends-up scaled down to 1/3rd size on the page anyway. The CDN might help the ping time of that request, but on a low-bandwidth device, 4 MB is still 4 MB no matter what server it's coming from.
- icebraining 11y agoYeah, though CF does have content optimization features, including one that auto-resizes images to the type of device.
- oneloop 11y agoThat's awesome. Do you have link to docs?
- icebraining 11y agoIt's more a marketing page than documentation: https://www.cloudflare.com/mirage/ https://www.cloudflare.com/mirage/ They have a bunch of similar features: https://www.cloudflare.com/features-optimizer/ https://www.cloudflare.com/features-optimizer/
- nawitus 11y agoWouldn't the CDN'd resource be already cached for most users (if we're talking about the average, often used resource)?
- duaneb 11y agoThe last mile is the limiting factor in this case. A super cached 4mb image still takes a minute to load on a 64 KiB/second connection.
- duaneb 11y agoAugh, I see. I don't understand why a 4 mb image would be likely cached. The problem is mostly custom sites with massive assets, not your copy of jquery that's probably heavily redundant.