Gcore CDN accelerates
WordPress websites
A Content Deliver Network (CDN) makes your website visitors closer to the origin server that hosts your content by using geographically distributed cache servers. With more than 180 points of presence around the world, Gcore CDN is ready to cut down your page load time to significantly improve user satisfaction.
Reduce initial server response time (TTFB)
With 14,000+ peering partners and intelligent request routing, Gcore CDN has an average latency of 30 ms around the world. Our CDN service allows you to cut down the initial server response time for your WordPress website.
Reduce page load time
Our caching servers are located closely to your users so all their requests will be served faster. The shorter distance means we can deliver more data per second to minimize the page load time.
Reduce size of transferring files
Our CDN uses Brotli and Gzip compression algorithms that significantly lower the size of the content on your WordPress website: text, images, videos and others. Using Brotli, you can decrease LCP metric from 2.8 to 1.9 seconds. WebP conversion can provide up to 3 times smaller file size than PNG.
Optimized website speed drives user engagement
Lower Bounce
Rate
20% reduction in page load time leads to 9% decrease in bounce rate.
Increased Session
Duration
55% page load time improvement (LCP
metric) delivers 23% better session
duration.
Improved conversion
rate
A 0.1 second page load time improvement increases mobile conversion rate by 8–10%
Fast webpages
make SEO better
Search engine rankings are heavily influenced by website behavioural factors. This includes when users experience slow website pages, which you cannot improve alone. To measure and improve user experience on the web, Google revealed Core Web Vitals, the key website performance metrics you need to follow.
The Gcore CDN helps your WordPress website load faster, increase its Core Web Vitals score, and, in turn, reach a higher SERP ranking.
Connect CDN using
nameservers
Another solution to simplify the integration of the CDN and your WordPress website is to use nameservers to route traffic through the CDN. Creating a new CDN resource, you can choose to accelerate and protect the entire site and start the wizard that helps you perform configuration in just a few clicks.
This approach provides you with additional value: all static and dynamic content of the website will be secured at layers L3 and L4.
WordPress caching plugin for simple CDN setup
Gcore WordPress plugin helps you install CDN on your website with no additional effort. It automatically updates links to the caching content in your website code.
How to set up a CDN for a WordPress site:
- 1. Sign up to Gcore
- 2. Create a new CDN resource
- 3. Install the plugin on your WordPress website
- 4. Specify the domain in the plugin
- 5. Set type/folder/exceptions for caching files
Free plan features
HTTP/3 (tech preview)
Optimize web performance with HTTP-over-QUIC
Free TLS certificate
Free Let’s Encrypt certificate for secure connection
DDoS mitigation
Built-in DDoS attack mitigation at L3 and L4 layers
Full-featured API
Simplify your CDN management with extended API
Easy log viewing
View and export logs via GUI or API easily
Terraform support
Easy CDN management via Terraform
Grafana support
View traffic statistics and other CDN metrics in Grafana
Cloud ecosystem
Get reduced latency with the other Gcore’s cloud services