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CDN Enabler, Cache Enabler and Optimus WordPress Plugins?

This looks like a bit of an unrelated, catch-all heading for this article, but read on to find out how these 3 plugins work hand in hand to speed up your WordPress website.

KeyCDN Plugins

If you search for new plugins in your WordPress admin area and then type in “Keycdn”, you will find that these 3 plugins pop up near the top of the list and that is because they are all made by KeyCDN.

KeyCDN have produced these 3 plugins so as they talk together and behave nicely to each other and produce a complete jigsaw of CDN with caching and image optimisation all in one, to enhance performance.

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CDN Enabler Plugin

The CDN enabler plugin is free and although designed specifically for the KeyCDN service, it can be used with other CDN services as well.

Full details on the plugin are here.

Cache Enabler Plugin

The cache enabler plugin is free and you can use it stand alone as well if you want to, but it works best integrated with all 3 services.

More details can be found on the KeyCDN website for this plugin and you can download it there too.

Optimus Plugin

The third plugin is for reducing the size of your images in order to speed up the loading of your pages and full details can be found here.

Testing Performance

I am currently testing the performance of using all 3 plugins along with the KeyCDN cdn service as well.

So far it seems to be working well, but I would like to do further tests and reports.

Price is the big bonus here. I have already said that the plugins are free and whilst the CDN service is not free, it is as close to free as I have seen!

KeyCDN really do have very cheap services and you should have a look and compare them to others.

Cloudflare Rocket Loader Adsense

Cloudflare Rocket Loader Adsense – the question is, does the Cloudflare Rocket Loader setting affect Google Adsense adverts in any way?

This is a very important question if you use Adsense for revenue on your WordPress website, as you do not want anything to interfere with that.

What is Cloudflare Rocket Loader?

Well, it’s not rocket science, or maybe it is? The official Cloudflare definition of Rocket Loader is:

“a general-purpose asynchronous JavaScript loader coupled with a lightweight virtual browser which can safely run any JavaScript code after window.onload”

Nice description!

However, what does it really mean in practical terms and what does it actually do when you activate it.

It’s fast and depending on the size of your website, it can be very fast.

It is definitely worth a try if you want to speed up your website and we all know that Google loves quick websites and will reward them with higher positions in the rankings, which leads to more traffic.

I did an article here on Cloudflare Free Review.

Use Rocket Loader With Caution!

As I say, definitely worth a test on your website, but be sure to check everything on your site to make sure it is rending properly and keep checking too.

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Cloudflare Rocket Loader Adsense

Don’t Use Rocket Loader With Google Adsense!

This is my own personal experience of using both together. I was told by Cloudflare that there “might” be a problem or conflict when using Rocket Loader on a website with Adsense adverts on it.

I use Adsense on all my websites and I have carried out a number of test to see if there was any conflict.

When I viewed the websites they looked fine and I could see all the Adsense adverts displaying fine.

However, my Adsense stats and revenue told me a completely different story.

There was definitely a conflict and I immediately removed Rocket Loader.

After removing Rocket Loader, my Adsense stats and revenue eventually returned to normal again.

I wasn’t testing anything else at the time, so in my experience I have found a conflict with Rocket Loader and Google Adsense adverts.

The Cloudflare Rocket Loader Adsense Problem

CloudFlare stands between your website and visitors to your website.

So Google Adsense sees CloudFlare as the traffic origin instead of the visitor.

This means it is actually the IP address of the CloudFlare server that is visible, instead of the visitor’s IP address.

This is not good.

Due to this Google displays ads relevant to the location of the CloudFlare server, instead of the real visitor’s location.

For example, if an original visitor is from India and the CloudFlare server that is catering the request is in the USA, then the visitor will see ads relevant to a visitor from the USA.

This wrong geo targeting of ads results in less CTR and hence less earnings from Adsense.

You can see ads in language other than English (assuming the visitor is from English speaking region) the CloudFlare server catering the request is in other region.

Not getting real IP address (that is ip address of visitors), but instead getting CloudFlare ip address could actually jeopardise your Google Adsense account, as this is strictly against their terms and conditions!

Conclusion

If you do not use Google Adsense and do not have Adsense adverts on your website, I would say to give Cloudflare and Rocket Loader a try.

If you do use Adsense adverts, then I would be very careful, as I know I will not be using both together again due to my experiences with it.

I understand from Cloudflare that they are working on a replacement for Rocket Loader which is due out soon and I would like to give that a test when it is launched.

If anything further develops on the Cloudflare Rocket Loader Adsense setup, I will update it here.

You might also like to read about how to Double Google Adsense Earnings.

Cloudflare Free Review

Cloudflare Free Review – CloudFlare has a totally free service that quickens and secures your website against malicious visitors, save bandwidth and reduce average page load times.

I will try to point out a few interesting and helpful things in this Cloudflare Free review.

How Does Cloudflare Work?

It is designated as your authoritative name servers once CloudFlare is empowered for the web site; this means all requests for your site are actually routed through CloudFlare to quicken your traffic and to screen it too.

With network routing technology and 23 data centers around the globe, CloudFlare is competent to:

Bring visitors the fastest connection possible

CloudFlare’s worldwide Anycast network courses customers to the datacenter that is closest to them, resulting in your website loading twice as quickly for your visitors no matter where they are located in the world.

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Cloudflare Free Review

Screen the traffic for malicious visitors of your website’s

Hazards are blocked and visitors that were good are able to instantly get the pages they request.

Cache static content on your website

CloudFlare caches static content on your own site like JavaScript pictures and CSS, but not HTML.

Cached content delivered directly to visitors from a nearby CloudFlare data center at an extremely rapid speed and is refreshed often.

When data isn’t cache-capable, CloudFlare is not unable to respond to requests through the use of superior courses just as quickly.

Rocket Loader ensures that no script blocks your page content from loading them one at a time and loading by bundling all script requests into just one request.

Advantages of CloudFlare:

Website Performance Development

CloudFlare has proxy servers located through the planet which are located closer to your visitors; this makes page load speed improvement possible as the cached content is delivered from the carton that is closest caching rather than directly off our servers.

There’s lots of research that reveals the quicker the site, the longer a visitor stays.

Various technologies, like AutoMinify and Rocket Loader, come together to make your pages efficient and fast as you can regardless of what device is surfing your web site.

Bot and Threat Protection

CloudFlare uses data from Project Honey Pot, its own community and other third party sources to spot malicious dangers online and also stop attacks before they even get to your internet site.

Junk Comments Protection

CloudFlare leverages data from third-party resources to reduce the number of spam comments on your web site.

Alerting Visitors of Infected Computers

CloudFlare alerts visitors that are human with infected computers that they must take actions to clean up the malware or virus on their machine.

Visitors can then enter a CAPTCHA to gain access to your own internet site.

Offline Browsing Mode

In the event that your own servers are not available, visitors should still have the ability to gain access to your internet site since CloudFlare serves visitors a page from its cache.

Lower Resource Usage

The overall CPU utilisation of your account is reduced as fewer requests hit your own servers.

Even during a traffic surge, your server will stay online as CloudFlare consumes the requests.

New Website Stats

CloudFlare gives risks and insight into internet search engine crawlers and valid traffic to you in simple to read formats.

CloudFlare Apps

CloudFlare provides an individual market where the web’s leading programs could be safely and immediately installed on any website with just a couple clicks.

SSL Support

SSL use is now applicable through CloudFlare, in which additional info can be obtained through the next article: Cloudflare SSL

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Cloudflare Free Review

My Own Personal Experience of Cloudflare Free Review Service

I was initially a bit nervous of using Cloudflare free I must confess.

I was paying for dedicated WordPress hosting through SiteGround which I am really impressed with, so why should I put Cloudflare between my hosting and my customer?

Well, everything that is listed above is totally true and helpful and free!

SiteGround recommend using CloudFlare and you can activate the free version within their UI which gives a perfect setup.

If you are not using SiteGround to integrate CloudFlare, then you need to go through the Cloudflare settings slowly and carefully to make sure they are right for your particular website, otherwise you might have problems.

In fact, I will do a post about the best settings to use soon (now on ToDo list!).

Rocket Loader is just magnificent in speeding up your website fantastically….BUT!

I added Rocket Loader to some of my websites and was really please with how fast they sites now were loading.

What I also noticed was a slow decline in my Google Adsense click-through and earnings were starting to be affected.

Cloudflare will admit that Rocket Loader can affect Adsense Adverts and they are working on a replacement product that should be out in a year or so.

I was disappointed!

I just did not want to remove Rocket Loader as it worked so well, but apparently there might be a work around to help.

Rocket Loader Adsense Adverts Workaround

Others say the following will work and I have shown the code below to let you have a look.

However, I am NOT using this as the Google Adsense t&c’s say you should NOT alter their code in any way and that is good enough reason not to use this method.

You can add this code: data-cfasync=”false” at the start and end of the Google Adsense codes of you adverts, which stops Rocket Loader from affecting them.

At the start of the Adsense code: <script async src= ….etc.

just add the extra code to make it: <script data-cfasync=”false” async src= ….etc.

and near the end of the code which looks like: <script>

just add that extra bit of code in again to make it look like: <script data-cfasync=”false”>

As I stated, use with care.

In fact, I would not take the risk at all and just wait for the new version from CloudFlare to see if it works any better. Better safe than sorry!

I think the Cloudflare Free Version is a must for virtually all websites and would tempt you to give it a try on your own websites.

It will cost you nothing!

That is about it for my Cloudflare Free Review, but I will update this page as and when things change.

Have a look at another page at Best WordPress Theme Fastest Page Speed.