How I Improved My Website Speed by 400% in less than 5 minutes

        You know that website speed test is also one key for engaging readers to your website.

Research shows that, if your page speed is more than 6 or 7 seconds than user goes to another site or click back from loading your site. Your website's speed should be under 2 seconds.

And it will happen through Cloudflare. Yeah! Your website speed will increase with full security from Cloudflare.

You may have noticed that cytab loads faster than it used to...

Too much faster...

Because I just have joined CloudFlare and my website load time increased by 400%. 

Cloudflare is easy and quick to setup. I'll get into that in a sec. 

The best part - it is totally free!

But first....

What is CloudFlare

You are a webmaster. You know what you're up against. You get spam, hacked and broke. 

You get popular which is awesome.!

But can't handle the surge in traffic. Which is not awesome!

Your server goes offline, often at the worst possible time. Search engine punishes you when your site loads slowly. Then there is that uneasy feeling about some your visitor.

Are your readers are user-friendly? Are they embodiment a pure evil. How can you know?

The big guys and their teams had their expensive solution. They are covered with CloudFlare.

You can cover too...

Cloudflare is a community of webmasters just like you and me. CloudFlare protects your site by pulling the knowledge hundred of webmaster into a virtual fraud and abuse team.

"Like a neighborhood watch". 

If a hacker and spammer spotted on one site, CloudFlare instantly response to thwart the attack.

Cloudflare uses the size of its community to get access to the fastest Internet roots and fastest pipes.Cloudflare speeds up your whole website by distributing its content across the web.

This also means that CloudFlare can keep it online ever if your server goes down. cool isn't it?

You keep your existing hosting provider and don't need to change any code.

Any site with its own domain can be up and run in less than 5 minutes.

It's time to join Cloudflare. I am regretting now for not doing a lot sooner. It is used for improving your site speed and when your server goes down, your site will live on the web by CloudFlare.

Cloudflare is not hosting company at all or it's not CDN, but acts like one.

According to Cloudflare, they protect and accelerate any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through their intelligent global network.

They automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitor gets the fastest  page load times and best performance.

They also block threat and a limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources.

The result: Cloudflare powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and decrease in Spam and another attack.

What happened when I moved to Cloudflare

I will show you my website speed and load time before and after joining to CloudFlare.

To test your website load time, Go to Pingdom. 

I recommend checking your website speed now. So you can see the change after setting up CloudFlare to your website. I will get into that in a bit.

Take a note of your website "load time" in Pingdom test before joining CloudFlare.

See my website load time before joining the CloudFlare.

I was shocked to see that 4.60 second - "load time".

That is not awesome!

So I searched many methods to increase site speed and I get a result from Cloudflare. 

And here result after installing CloudFlare to my blog.

Now, This is awesome! Cool isn't it?

My website speed increased by 5 seconds. As you can see now my website speed is 835 Millisecond. It is less than 1 second. It's really awesome. Sometimes it goes a little bit higher. But you can see the improvement now.

Without spending  any penny and it is done in less than 5 minutes. 

Now I can show how it is done.

How to Setup CloudFlare for your website

We will see step by step setup to understand easily. 

1) Go to Cloudflare first and create a new account if you don't have one. Click on Add site. It is on the upper side of the site.

2) Add your website domain name in the text field and click on Begin Scan. It will take few seconds to scan your site.

3) After complete scanning, click on Continue. Don't touch any defaults if you are not familiar with CloudFlare.

4)After Continue you will see plans for CloudFlare. You have to choose  Free Plan. Don't worry about Pro Plan and Business Plan. It's on you to upgrade.

5)Here is the main part. Now you will see Current Nameservers and Cloudflare Nameservers.  

    

    You just have to change your Current Nameservers to Cloudflare NameServers. 

Your Current Nameservers will change from, where you bought your domain and change your Current Nameservers with Cloudflare Nameservers.

 A company like Godaddy, freenom, Hostgator, etc. You just have to go in Manage DNS and change Nameservers to Cloudflare Nameservers.

   Like I have bought my domain from Godaddy. So I can change from my Godaddy account. They have their Nameservers. They are Current Nameservers. You can see it. 

   Just replace it with Cloudflare Nameservers as given you on CloudFlare website.

 See below, In my Godaddy account, my Nameservers are changed to CloudFlare Nameserver. These Nameservers are given by CloudFlare.

After adding CloudFlare Nameservers to domain company. Go to CloudFlare website and click on Continue.

It will show Status Pending after adding your site to CloudFlare. Your site will take 24 hours to join the CloudFlare community.

That's it. It is easy huh! If you face any problem by setting up, ask your problems in comments. I can help you.

You just have setup your website with CloudFlare. It's totally free and quick to setup. 

After joining the site to CloudFlare see the speed of your website at Pingdom.

See the speed up page loading time and web performance.

Conclusion: 

 If you want to increase your speed, I highly recommend go through Cloudflare.

You don't have to spend a penny for setup at CloudFlare. 

In bonus, they will protect your site from hackers and spammers.

They also provide free SSL security to your site. 

You can save bandwidths of your website. It will help to load your website faster and fastest.

You should see the huge improvement in your site load time. Check it out at Pingdom.