Your WordPress site speed has a direct effect on your search engine ranking and thus the need to speed up your WordPress site with a content delivery network CDN service. Content delivery network or simply CDN is very essential for a fast page speed and general site speed as it will not just speed up your site but also save bandwidth cost for your hosting provider while making your site insanely fast and thereby improving your search engine ranking.
Content delivery network will provide security for your WordPress site such as protection against spam, scraping, vulnerability scanners and a complete defense against all types of DDoS threats, provide web application firewall while accelerating and optimizing traffic for faster load times.
The advantages of CDN can never be over-emphasized but one limiting factor for users is the cost of obtaining a premium CDN service, I understand that there are a lot of people who cannot afford to spend money buying CDN services as these services are often expensive and hard to afford by normal users so I have decided to share some awesome FREE CDN services to speed up your WordPress site.
Free CDN Services
In this article I am going to share some free CDN services for you to choose from. If you want your WordPress site to be among the fastest so you can rank higher on Google, then you need a CDN for your site to lower server strain and improve your site speed.
CloudFlare is my favorite free CDN service provider. In an earlier article on this blog titled “CloudFlare:Why every blogger should use this CDN”, I explained reasons why you should use CloudFlare. With 23 data centers across the world, CloudFlare free CDN services supercharges and protects millions of website and its setup process is quite simple. Simply download and install the CloudFlare WordPress plugin, activate it and follow the instructions to setup CloudFlare on your WordPress site.
Incapsula is yet another free CDN service you can use to speed up your WordPress site and improve your search engine ranking. Incapsula can speed up your WordPress site by 50% and more and consume 50% or less bandwidth while protecting your from DDoS attacks, SQL injections, Bot protection, Login protect, and spammers etc. Simply sign up to the free plan, download and install the Incapsula WordPress plugin. Activate the plugin and follow the instructions to complete the setup.
jsDelivr is yet another free CDN service for developers and webmasters. jsDelivr is a free public CDN that hosts javascript libraries and jQuery plugins, including all of the files they need to work (css/png). It even hosts javascript files that use popular WordPress plugins.
To setup jsDelivr free CDN service, simply install the jsDelivr WordPress CDN Plugin, activate the plugin and go to Settings-> jsDelivr CDN and follow the instructions to complete the setup.
SwarmCDN is yet another free CDN service to speed up your WordPress site. SwarmCDN is a peer-to-peer content delivery network using WebRTC. Simply download and install the SwarmCDN WordPress Plugin, activate and paste your API code and that’s all.
Conclusion
To keep it short while these free CDN services can insanely improve your WordPress site’s speed, it may still have some limitations compared to its premium plans. As you traffic continues to grow and your WordPress site becomes bigger, your free CDN service may not be able to handle such traffic and bandwidth demands then you must switch to a premium CDN plan.
If you are looking to buy a premium CDN plan already, then you can take advantage of this MaxCDN Coupon 25% Off.
Happy New Year as you speed up your WordPress site in this new year with any of these free CDN services.
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Hello Nwosu,
With my experience with these free CDNs (I’ve tested them all), cloudflare beats all of them to their game. Incapsula was simply the worst: they had quite poor customer service and believe me, I was locked out of my own site and branded a spammer!
However, I must point out that to really enjoy the full effect (and speed) of a CDN, you really have to part with some money! The free versions are just enticements to make you go premium!
Nice collection, however!
Always,
Terungwa
There is always more value in premium services compared to the free ones. Thanks for your comment.
Hello Nwosu,
Okay, all the mentioned CDN are new to me except the cloudflare which i am currently using. Because my host recommended it.
I thinks cloudflare has helped my blog in terms of speed. But as they always say, nothing beats premium :)
Thanks brother for showing me more option to cloudflare.
Hi Nwosu,
Excellent list bro! Nice to see two of my favorite plugins listed here. :)
I’m a user of CloudFlare and js Delivr. I’ve even tried using both of them together, in a sinngle blog. And guess what? They both work in perfect harmony!
CloudFlare, earlier, used to conflict with some plugins in my case. Especially the rocket loader. But, upon notifying the support staff, they solved that problem. Now, CloudFlare, I must say, is ‘fine tuned’!
Okay, the other CDNs you mentioned are also good. Heard a lot about them. But I’m too comfy with CloudFlare to try out the others. Wait until I start a new blog. I’ll definitely give incapsula a try :)
Arun
Great reviews of CDN’s. One that is pretty popular is Cloud Flare. Most people I know of use it and the other two that you have listed, I’ve never heard of. From reading on the comments, it’s good to know from Akaahan that Incapsula was not heavily favored. I’ll keep this in mind! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Nwosu,
I tried using for the third time and removed it again recently. What I hate most is, I find my site is down even for CloudFlare problems. I discovered that CloudFlare downtime is much more than my HostGator hosting. It is truly disappointing to see down even when my servers are up when it was told just the opposite. We expected CF will display the cashed version of our pages when servers are down.
Hey Nwosu,
It’s truly been a while since I last came here. But thank God I’m back now.
CDN are of course good for our blogs and like you said in the post, their pros cannot be overemphasize.
I currently I’m using cloudflare on Promotivator and it’s making sense.
Thanks for sharing!
Sam
I have experience using MaxCDN CDN services. Got it for only $1 during the 2011 Black Friday sales. It was good and my blog loaded faster. It was great while it lasted. I would like to subscribe again in the future when I have the funds.
Free CDN is better for those who don’t have money with them. After reading your article i am also going to setup CDn in my site soon. Thanks for this great article.
I have had same experience and this is exactly why i am considering using MaxCDN premium service soon.
Hi Nwosu,
Good lists of free CDN services, however I think Incapsula is best as one of my friends is using it on his website. He also tried CloudFlare but said it creates some issues with the WordPress admin section. So he switched to Incapsula and its really working fine without any headache.
Hi Nwosu Bro
Before 1week Ago i eared about CloudFlare. so i planned to use CloudFlare in my blog after seeing your blog post i am so happy that you mentioned CloudFlare is best service to CDN
thanks bro
keep sharing
Hi Nwosu,
I have heard of CloudFlare; the rest are new to me. I can see the immense benefits of using a CDN service though.
Thanks for sharing!
I tried cloudflare but I could never get it to work. Because it was the free version, support was through email and too slow for me to wait.
I tried Incapsula and got it working no problem. I don’t know how much it is really helping though :)
Thanks Ryan i hope you have implemented one on your blog.
What hosting company are you using for your web hosting? Most web hosting companies have partnered with CloudFlare and this has made its integration quite easy.
Thanks for the post. Your WordPress site speed has a direct effect on your search engine ranking and thus the need to speed up your WordPress site with a content delivery network CDN service.
Great to know about this services. I have made my site in wordpress. Going to give a try for my site. Looks like CloudFlare is a worth try.
I was thinking only Cloudflare is free but now I knew there are other FREE CDN service providers as well. I know cloudflare but I never installed it
I was not aware of these things….I will surely try this..
Came to know many new things..
Thanks for sharing this.
You will definitely find it interesting and useful.
You have to take advantage of it to improve your site speed and search engine ranking.
That may be true but as far as speed goes, I think cloudflare and pagespeed cdn are much better than incapsula. At least that’s what the tests I ran at http://spooster.com suggest.