Re: How to make your site faster, smarter, and safer!

Originally Posted by
b3n199
cloudflare is free and very proffessional. the customer support is friendly, they help me a lot even i am they free member. you should try they service. it's could help your website rank higher.
I'm not entirely sure why you quoted my posting. Were you trying to refute it? A proxy CDN like CloudFlare will only help with static elements; it can't cache dynamic pages. If you have a horrible mess of CMS and plugins that takes forever to generate your most basic pages, it doesn't matter that your CSS and images load a little faster -- the problem is that the dynamic HTML you are creating takes too long to serve. Your problem will remain until you fix your code. CloudFlare isn't magic. Yes, it can help, but it's a finishing touch, not a starting point.
And the page load component of PageRank, by the way, depends entirely on HTML and JavaScript -- Google doesn't care how long your images or CSS takes to load since the bot doesn't load either of them. If you are looking at speed as a component of SEO, look at your code (and local caching of dynamic data). Speeding up image and stylesheet loads will help you with your bounce rate, but it won't affect your search rankings.
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