The speed of the site is important for a better ranking in Google, as well as, for a better experience for your users. CDNs (Content delivery networks) exist for quite a while and they are a very good way to speed your website.
CDNs ares used by the big websites to store static files like: images, style sheets, files to download for a bigger internet speed. The files hosted on a CDN are scattered on the CDN company servers and loaded from the closest location of the visitor.
On the internet you can find other free CDNs but in my opinion they aren’t as good as Google App Engine. Transforming Google App Engine in a Free CDN, for sure it will bust your page load time for free, also by transforming Google App Engine in a Free CDN you will take advantage of the servers that Google has ( it is said that Google has more then 40 servers in the entire world).
Google App Engine as a Free CDN Limitations:
Everything has good and bad sides, but in my opinion, transforming Google App Engine in Free CDN for sure it will prove worthing your time:
- Transferring files – Google App Engine is using Python and Java to transfer files, so, sometimes can make things a little difficult.
- No Software – I wasn’t able to find any software that could help me in easing the file transfer process and configuration.
Google App Engine Free CDN is ideal for the sites that don’t have more then 5000 visitors a day, in case the quotas are higher you can buy extra space for $0.12/GByte for outgoing bandwidth.
Steps to Transform Google App Engine in a Free CDN:
- Download and install Python and Google App Engine SDK on your computer
- Sign up to to Google App Engine , you will need a phone number to do this.
- Create an Application and give your application a name (called “application identifier”), this needs to be unique.
- Configure Google App Engine, just open it and go to Edit – Preferences:
- Create a new application, go to File > Create New Application, Fill Application Name (should be the same as the Application identifier when you create the app engine), then choose where your file will be saved, then create the directories that you want for your files and put some example files there. For example, I have created a directory image and inserted some images there.
- Edit app.yaml, and put the directory there, mine is like this:
- Deploy the application,just press the button Deploy on the toolbar.
- Check to see if it worked, just go on http://[app-id].appspot.com/images/<image name>.
- If everything is ok modify the theme to point to the new files location.
application: cdnbitdozeversion: 1runtime: pythonapi_version: 1handlers:- url: /imagesstatic_dir: images
More configuration can be done, in the code: I have chosen to do this because it is what I know for know, below you can find some similar articles that can also help you:
Conclusions
I have been using Google App Engine Free CDN for a couple of days on my site, and the performance enhancement that is bringing is notable. Just configure Google App Engine as a Free CDN and tell me if it helped.
Page speed can make or break an site, so if it runs slow then you best believe people will not come back.
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Does this easily support integration with a WordPress blog by allowing all files in the wp-content/uploads folder to be offloaded to the Google App CDN, do you know if the W3 Total Cache CDN setup supports Google App CDN?
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I have tried to integrate W3 Total Cache with Google but I didn’t have any luck, in my opinion if you use Google CDN along with a personal CDN that is also free, being a sub domain, your speed will double because the browsers can only load 4 elements a time. So with a self hosted CDN and a Google CDN, I think you will have a lot of success, the files will be loaded from 3 parts. I was thinking to write an article about this the next days. If you want I can Guest posted on your blog because it has more visitors?
Your website’s page loading time is definitely more important than it used to be, especially when it comes to ranking well in the search engines. I am interested in using Google App Engine as a Free CDN so thanks for the quick step by step instructions. I will test it out on one of my newer sites and see how it goes. Thanks.
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oh thanks a lot. it makes me easy to do my job.
Thanks a lot! CDN services are always costly!
Thanks for the idea. Since my blog has quite a few images of artwork (mine and others) besides the writing, I would like to offload the WordPress uploads directory. I’ll let you know how it works out.
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You can really see an improvement in the site load after you will use it. Just try it and let me know.
RE: “The speed of the site is important for a better ranking in Google”.
I really do believe this is just a problem for *really* slow sites, rather than meaning a site which is microseconds faster will improve it’s position.
At the end of the day, a very slow site provides an awful user experience – which is presumably why Google take it into consideration.
I’m personally dubious as to how much speed Google App Engine can save, unless a site has thousands of hits a day.
You can really see and increase if you will give it a chance.
Google is a great comp-any and they have played a major role in my life in the last 12 years. I will give it a shot for one of my image heavy sites that I run for a church. Thanks for the cool post.
You dont seem to be using Google CDN now ?
How did it go ?
Why are you not using it now?
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Hi,
Indeed I am not using it now because I had my theme changed few weeks back and didn’t integrated it. Also now I am using CloudFlare a free service, I have made a review yesterday you can read it if you want.
Google CDN is great and I am recommending it to everyone, I will integrate it in this theme too.
Thanks you helped me a lot with this i will try in my WP site.
Wow great ways to store image files. Thank you for your tips.
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