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Choose the Best Storage Options for your WordPress Media Files

Topics Asset Management, CDN, WordPress
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The Cloudinary WordPress Plugin integrates smoothly with WordPress, moving your media files to Cloudinary’s powerful cloud infrastructure. This can free up your WordPress storage, depending on your chosen settings. Your images and videos are delivered through a high-performance content delivery network (CDN), ensuring fast loading times worldwide. Everything is…

3 Ways to Lower Your Website’s Carbon Footprint This Earth Day

Topics CDN, Green Tech, Lazy Loading
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Based on a quick glance at the calendar we concluded that there are only two holidays that you would celebrate by performing mathematical calculations.  The first holiday that leaps to mind is Pi Day, but Pi Day is more of a charming coincidence than a genuine commemoration or celebration. And,…

Building a Winning Mobile Strategy (Part 2)

Topics CDN, Mobile, Performance Optimization
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In Part 1 our series on building a winning mobile strategy, we discussed the importance of measuring, monitoring, and optimizing your users’ mobile experience. In Part 2, we’ll walk through how Cloudinary can help you improve your application performance. How can Cloudinary help…

Cloudinary’s Multi-CDN Approach: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

Topics CDN, Image, Multi-CDN
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A content delivery network (CDN) is a physically distributed infrastructure of interconnected points of presence (POPs) that cache content as close as possible to the end-user, thus offering the best performance and user experience.CDNs also boosts content reliability by shielding websites from most of the traffic. Even if the…

The Rise of the Media Experience Cloud

Topics Asset Management, CDN, Image Transformation, Performance Optimization, Video Transcoding, Video Transformation
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Visual media, notably images and videos, has long assumed a prominent role of visual storytelling in digital customer experiences for good reason. However, effectively managing a parade of ever-growing media assets is complex, labor intensive, and full of pitfalls. This article describes the background economy and introduces an essential technology…

Cloudinary Media Optimizer: No-Code Optimization and Delivery of Visual Media

Topics CDN, Core Web Vitals, e-commerce, Multi-CDN, Performance Optimization, Video API, Video Transcoding
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To effectively engage with today’s digital audience, websites must be extremely visual. Even though high-quality images and videos play a key role in attracting and retaining visitors, those media assets also add to the page weight, load time, and bandwidth. Unoptimized content can result in performance issues, causing visitors to…

Faster Media = Faster Websites: a Recap of a Cloudinary Workshop at React Summit 2021

Topics CDN, Core Web Vitals, Performance Optimization, React, SDK, Video API
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tl;dr; Cloudinary conducted a workshop at React Summit 2021 to highlight the effect of media performance on websites by correlating it with Google’s Core Web Vitals and other performance measurements. Also presented were typical optimization techniques along with code samples. Here are the recording and the slides.

Case Study: Cloudinary Helps the Global Thermomix Community Cook Up Culinary Masterpieces

Topics Asset Management, Case Studies, CDN, e-commerce, Performance Optimization, Video, Video API
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Without necessarily knowing it, you may well be a Vorwerk customer: this great German family-owned company is behind the powerful Kobold vacuum cleaner, as well as a wide range of cosmetics, skin and body care products through its Jafra subsidiary.  But if you’ve ever been inspired by ‘Bake-Off’ or…

A Primer: Content Delivery Through a China CDN Partnered With Cloudinary

Topics CDN
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In February 2018, Cloudinary announced its support of content delivery through CDNs [content delivery networks] in China. With this offering, we announced the ability to support features like automatic format f_auto, DPR selection dpr_auto and authentication (using token and cookies). This post elaborates on the CDN options available to…

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