Test Google Cloud CDN

After connecting Google Cloud CDN, it is important to see the difference in the website’s loading speed and the improvement of the webpage performance.

To understand the improvement of the website PageSpeed performance, first need to analyze the PageSpeed without connecting Google Cloud CDN. There are many online tools like Google PageSpeed Insight, RabbitLoader and GTMetrix available to analyze the PageSpeed.

A Google PageSpeed insights score of 90 or above is considered a good performance score. Whereas, a score between 50-89 is considered an average score and it means site speed needs to be improved. And finally, A score of below 50 is considered a poor score.

Now, after connecting Google Cloud CDN, we need to check the performance for both, mobile mode and as well as desktop mode, So that we can measure the difference between the website’s speed performance and see the improvement.

A Google Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) uses the Google global network to serve static resources such as media files like images and videos, CSS stylesheets, JavaScript files, and so on with lower latency and higher transfer speed. This cloud CDN will permit users to access the webpage content from the nearest edge location. Google Cloud CDN also reduces the stress on the backend server by sharing the content with the cloud CDN, which is available in 130+ edge locations.

Google Cloud CDN works with a load balancer to deliver the content to the end user. When users request any content from a website, that request will arrive at the edge of the Google network that is nearest to them.

• If the requested content is not present at the edge location server, Google Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) retrieves the requested content from the backend, which means the original server. This is also known as “Cache Miss.”
• In a content delivery network such as Google Cloud CDN, if the requested content is present, then CDN can fulfill the request of the user. This is known as a “Cache Hit”