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I 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. Onl
by duaneb 11y ago
I 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.