How to Configure Content Delivery Network (CDN) in Magento 2

Configure CDN Magento 2 - Content Delivery Network (CDN) is one of the advanced solutions when your site performance is too low to load and too long to wait while the web loading time is an important factor which affect your user experience, as well as SEO. Unlike full-page cache, Content Delivery Network (CDN) is not fully integrated into Magento 2 Store, so you need to choose and configure a CDN for own.

Therefore, in this post, I am going to cover installing a CDN on Magento to help you achieve an amazing speed on the site.

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To configure a content delivery network in Magento 2

• On the Admin panel, click Stores. In the Settings section, select Configuration.
• Select Web under General in the panel on the left
• Open the Base URLs section, and continue with following:

• In the Base URL for Static View Files field, enter the URL of the location on the CDN where static view files are stored
• In the Base URL for User Media Files field, enter the URL of the JavaScript files on the CDN
• Open the Base URLs (Secure) section, and continue with following:
  • In the Secure Base URL for Static View Files field, enter the URL of the location on the CDN where static view files are stored.
  • In the Secure Base URL for User Media Files field, enter the URL of the JavaScript files on the CDN.
• When complete, click Save Config.

Note: All these fields can be left blank, or they can start with the placeholder: {{unsecure_base_ url}}

Recommendation

We recommend to use Cloud CDN:

• Cloudflare
• Google Cloud CDN
• Amazon CloudFront
• MaxCDN
• Sucuri
• KeyCDN
• Rackspace