Free CDN

for WordPress

Gcore provides a free CDN plan for all WordPress enthusiasts who need a robust and affordable solution to reach a global audience.

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 160 points of presence around the world, Gcore CDN is ready to cut down your page load time to significantly improve user satisfaction.

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Key

benefits

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    Reduce initial server response time (TTFB)

    With 13,000+ 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.

 

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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.

 

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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
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WordPress caching plugin for simple CDN setup

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