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Speed testing your site

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Speed testing your site

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- [Tutor] Once you've gotten your CDN set up and configured, you'll want to run a speed test to see how your CDN is performing. If you ran a benchmark speed test before enabling your CDN, you'll be able to gauge how much of a performance boost you got. Earlier, I mentioned using Google page speed, or Pingdom to run a test. There are other services out there that you're welcome to use too. In this lesson, I want to highlight a few things to keep in mind when you're running a speed test. For starters, part of the reason a CDN can speed up your website, is because it's serving static content from cache. Therefore, if you've only just added a CDN, recently clear the cache, or if the cache has expired, content might not be cached when you run your first speed test. So if you run a speed test once and don't see an improvement, don't get discouraged. Run it two or three times. Next up, consider your speed test location.…

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