Speed Up Your Website with MaxCDN & Carrington Mobile

I’m going to show you simple tips for speeding up a website with Content Delivery Network; which is simply a network of servers around the globe. A Ranking on the first page of Google seems to be getting more difficult, but Page Speed is an important factor in ranking high on search engines.

Let’s first talk MaxCDN;

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is simply a network of servers around the globe. A CDN’s sole purpose is to deliver content to the visitor in the fastest way possible.

How MaxCDN Works

We start off by taking the static assets of your website, like style sheets, JavaScript files, and images, onto our network of servers, which will then store the files for later use.

When your CDN domain is called (e.g.: cdn.yourdomain.com), we will determine the fastest way to deliver files to the user, and then deliver the file to the user from our high-powered servers. – Maxcdn

In English; CDN makes your website/blog faster by storing files that don’t need to be reloaded every time someone clicks on your blog or a different page.

It’s like you have to build something on the third floor of a building with a broken elevator. Instead of going to the first floor to pick up the tools needed every time. You take every tool needed and store it on the third floor, making your work faster and easier.

You might begin to wonder why MaxCDN

The faster your website is, the happier your users will be, and top SEO guy Yoast recommends MaxCDN and most importantly I have tested it, and I can assure you it can be trusted to improve your site speed, and it would also reduce the load on your server drastically.

How To Set It Up

Recommended: WP Super Cache (Easier to use)

Best: WP Total Cache (Very solid but has a lot of settings that can easily confuse you.)

Read how to use MaxCDN here

Carrington Mobile Theme

A mobile-friendly theme for your blog. Best used with (and included with) the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin. Supports basic mobile browsers as well as advanced and touch-screen browsers with a display optimized for each. Built on the Carrington framework.

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This theme is suitable if you have a lot of your traffic coming from countries with weak internet connection.

You can even determine what smartphone get’s theme by using this useful WordPress plugin; Any Mobile Theme Switcher Pro. You can get it free by just donating $0.

Carrington mobile theme is a very basic theme, and that’s what makes it great and leaves it with some few niggles that can be solved.

1. Replace Carrington theme search box with Google custom search box

2. Carrington mobile theme with Spam Free WordPress plugin

3. Carrington mobile theme footer customization

4. Remove date from Carrington mobile theme excerpts page

5. Carrington mobile theme with WordPress SEO by Yoast

You can do the following by following the tutorial available here

Make Images and Video Resize Properly

The pictures and videos on Carrington mobile don’t resize correctly. Be calm and fix it by following the tutorial here or install this plugin

Add Your Menu

Carrington Mobile doesn’t use menus; instead, it uses pages.

To add the menu function, just add it by reading how to add menus in WordPress themes here.

If you find all this complex use the contact form, I will hook you up with someone to do it for you.

Additionally, it is recommended you use a caching plugin to enhance further your site load speed and visitor’s experience.

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