jomCDN Optimization plugin for Joomla!
Boost your Joomla website speed with jomCDN
Get jomCDN to dramatically boost your Joomla website's performance today
Tried and tested, jomCDN is the best-selling Joomla performance plugin to tap into global Content Delivery Network of high-performance servers to distribute your content. With jomCDN, you can take the load of delivering resource intensive content off your server, and push it to Amazon or MaxCDN to handle video, audio, photos, downloads, even CSS and JavaScript files. jomCDN is the right plug-in to help you do more, and do it faster to improve your site's performance, SEO and customer experience.
jomCDN Features Checklist:
What is a CDN, and why should you use it?
CDN means “Content Delivery Network” or "Content Distribution Network." It’s a system of computers around the world, containing copies of website data. Essentially, a CDN lets your visitors access your Joomla website faster. Imagine the Internet as a bunch of computers all over the world. Each computer store the website data that you see when you browse the web. If the website you visit is stored on a computer on the other side of the world, it will take longer to load on your computer.
Nobody likes a slow loading website. Your website visitors might even leave your site before it loads. When you use jomCDN, it changes everything! By tapping into a content delivery network, your website visitors will access the copy of your website data that is nearest to them, delivered by a series of ultra-fast cloud-based servers, rather than pulling the content directly from your hosted server. This means faster loading content, and happier website visitors, who are far more likely to stay and browse your site.
jomCDN perfectly integrates the following CDN services:
jomCDN instantly enhances your site performance, thanks to:
- Location-based server load
- Automatic image optimization
- Gzip compression and minification of CSS and JS files
- Browser caching with Expires and Cache-Control headers
jomCDN for Joomla will automatically…
- Compile and gzip all your images, javascript files, css files, etc and synch them to Amazon’s servers
- Re-link all your page content to the Amazon servers
- Reduce the load of your server bandwidth, because you’re using Amazon or Rackspace's distributed cloud network
jomCDN helps your Joomla website's SEO:
One of the most important factors in technical SEO today is page speed. If you want to increase your chances of higher rankings and happier visitors, which is more likely to convert to customers, we highly recommend you get jomCDN now. When you use a Joomla CDN extension:
- Your Joomla website will load faster
- You will follow Google’s guidelines for performance optimization
- You improve your chances of ranking higher in the search engine results
What others are saying about jomCDN:
We know that jomCDN will help you improve the speed of your Joomla site, but don't just take our word for it. Read some of our customer testimonials, quoted directly from the Joomla! Extension Directory:
"My website's Google Pagespeed rating went from 67 to 86, which is remarkable. A solid product with excellent support"
"I’ve used JomCDN on a few sites now (configured with Amazon S3 and Cloudfront.) Installation sounds complicated at first, but if you follow the instructions step-by-step you'll be fine. I had a small problem on one site, and the support was excellent; corePHP adjusted a setting and then everything worked perfectly. Most importantly, it does what it says - it has dramatically improved the load time of each site I've installed it on!”
"A must-have for any Joomla site!"
"With additional tweaking, I've gotten the site down to the one second range, almost as fast as Google or Yahoo's home page! Who says Joomla can't be used for professional-quality sites!!! jomCDN is a must-have in my opinion."
“jomCDN...immediately cut my homepage load time from around 4.5 seconds to around 2.5 seconds. Two seconds makes a tremendous difference in terms of whether a person will stay on your site or move on to the next Google hit!"
“It really helped my site to load twice as fast as before and I even moved up on my google ranking. This was a great purchase. Thanks. Great product!"
Installation steps for jomCDN
Installing jomCDN for your Joomla! website is an easy step-by-step process. Here is a short summary of the installation steps:
- Download jomCDN
- Run a speed test on your website (just for fun, and to see the improvement later)
- Sign up for Amazon S3 (or Rackspace) and create a "bucket". This is where you'll store your files.
- Sign up for Amazon CloudFront and setup the information.
- Install and configure jomCDN
- Run a speed test on your website (to see the improvement - you'll see it right away!)
A detailed guide showing you how to install jomCDN, including a video tutorial, is included with our jomCDN Documentation.
Technical Details & Requirements
- Objects have Etags
- Using jomCDN, CSS and JavaScript files are minified and gzipped
- Expires and Cache-Control headers are set for all objects
- jomCDN supports file types: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, css, js, ico, htc, pdf, doc, docx, log, rtf, txt, wks, xls, xlsx, csv, dat, key, pps, ppt, pptx, xml, aif, aac, iff, mid, m3u, midi, mpa, mp3, ra, wav, wma, 3g2, 3gp, asf, asx, avi, flv, mov, mp4, mpg, rm, swf, wmv, 7z, deb, gz, pkg, rar, sit, sitx, zip, zipx
- If you need support for other custom file types, they can be added (with the exception of dynamic content)
- CloudFront service is not required, you can use S3 on its own
- S3/CloudFront and Cloud Files are cookie free domains, therefore minimizing the request size
- cURL must be enabled
- Requires an Amazon S3 or MaxCDN account
- Joomla! system file cache must be enabled on sites using Joomla 2.5+
- open_basedir and safe_mode must be disabled. Both prevent necessary API access to place assets on the CDN
- Joomla 2.5
- Joomla 3.x
- PHP 5.2+
- MySQL 5.0.3+
