section.io Website Performance and Security Blog

One of the biggest benefits of having a content delivery network (CDN) for your website is the improvement in page speed and overall website performance. When section.io partnered with Adore Beauty, Australia’s leading online beauty shop, they were fast approaching holiday season and looking to improve their website performance during a critical time for web sales.

The importance of website performance is often overlooked, even though the Internet heavily influences many aspects of our daily lives. Over the past few months I have been investigating just how crucial and imperative optimal website performance is to the success of one’s company or organization.

Here are my top five CDN myths (for today) and a quick discussion of why they are not exactly true.

As we know, millions of Australians have not been able to lodge their Census online as the ABS Census site is offline.

New Relic is one of the best tools that many of our clients use for performance monitoring, for both their internal infrastructure as well as performance of their sites through a CDN. To be able to accurately measure performance and impacts from deployments, New Relic needs to be setup correctly so the relevant metrics are not obfuscated by extraneous data.

section.io recently released a new Magento extension that provides visibility for business managers to see their magento Varnish Cache metrics without having to login to the section.io application. You can get the extension for your Magento website by going to the Magento Marketplace.

I am very pleased to confirm that section.io has just closed our $1.5m seed funding round.

Did you know your marketing team could be impacting your page load times? Or worse, their activities could bring your site down?

If you operate a website, a massive wave of traffic can be a very appealing idea. However, such a wave can also knock your site offline, or leave it crawling at slow speeds.

The evidence is conclusive; website page load time matters. The faster your website the more revenue your website will generate. Amazon and Google have studied this phenomenon. We have studied it and recently FT.com produced a great summary of their findings.