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This blog explores what a CDN is the benefits of CDN for eCommerce, and how it helps turn the lost opportunities into revenue. We’ll also introduce Rapyd CDN, a powerful solution built on top of Rapyd Cloud hosting, designed to optimize your online shopping experience and improve eCommerce conversion.
Imagine a customer visits your shop and just as they’re about to make a purchase, the power goes out. By the time you figure out what happened and restore electricity, the customer’s gone, as if disappearing into the abyss.
That’s exactly what happens every time your online store takes too long to load. While everyone deserves a second chance, that’s not the case in the world of e-commerce because customers have near-to-zero patience.
Here’s an interesting fact you got to know:
A staggering 70% of consumers admit that page speed impacts their willingness to buy from an online retailer.
Lost customers translate to lost revenue, and a missed opportunity to grow your business.
So what’s the solution? How can we turn lost customers into profitable streams of income?
A Content Delivery Network (CDN).
What is a CDN and Why Does it Even Matter?
A CDN is a geographically distributed network of servers that caches static website content, such as images, videos, and HTML files.
When a user visits your website, the CDN delivers the content from the server closest to their location, significantly reducing latency and improving loading times. For your e-commerce store, you know that every second counts.
Let’s put it this way:
Having a CDN on your website is like launching multiple physical locations of your business, making it easy for your customers to make a purchase from the one closest to their location.
The same goes for your website. If your website’s hosted in the US, and your customers are landing in from Australia, your site will automatically show content from the nearest servers in their geographic location.
What is The Impact of Slow Websites on E-commerce Sales?
Slow websites are the equivalent of trying to use a family sedan as a sports car. It just doesn’t work.
In different studies on the impact of slow websites on eCommerce sales, here are some facts and figures you need to know:
- Increased Bounce Rates: A mere one-second delay in page load time can increase bounce rates by up to 32%. This means potential customers are leaving your site before even seeing your products.
- Decreased Conversions: Slow loading times directly correlate with lower conversion rates. Customers are less likely to complete a purchase if the checkout process is slow, has multiple steps, or is not user-friendly.
- Negative SEO Impact: Search engines now prioritize fast-loading websites in their rankings. Why? Because search engines now translate the user experience on your website directly into rankings. Happy customers, happy search engines, and vice versa. A slow site will negatively impact your search engine optimization efforts, making it harder for customers to find you.
- Damaged Brand Reputation: A slow and unreliable website can damage your brand’s credibility and deter customers from returning. That’s no different than the example we shared at the start of this blog.
Here Are 7 Benefits of CDN for eCommerce Sales
A CDN offers numerous benefits that directly translate to increased e-commerce sales. Here’s how:
- Accelerates Page Load Times
By delivering content from geographically closer servers, a CDN drastically reduces loading times. This leads to lower bounce rates, increased engagement, and more completed purchases.
This is by far the biggest and the most obvious advantage of having a CDN for your online store. The time you save results in higher conversions and sales revenue.
- Increases Mobile Conversions
Let’s be honest. Nobody has the time to sit on their home or office laptop, scrolling for those favorite brands. Everyone’s busy and mobile shopping is now the go-to way for boosting eCommerce sales.
You have to be where your customers are.
This means having your website super optimized for mobile devices. A CDN optimizes site speed for mobile users, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable experience, even on slower mobile connections. This is crucial for maximizing mobile conversions.
- Improves Checkout Experiences
A seamless and quick checkout process is essential for minimizing cart abandonment. A CDN ensures a fast and reliable checkout experience, encouraging customers to complete their purchases with reliability and satisfaction.
Abandoned carts are a big problem for online stores, and most often than not, the primary reason for them is due to slow loading websites. Customers neither have the time nor the energy to purchase from slow websites anymore.
- Handles Flash Sales and Traffic Surges
During peak sales events or marketing campaigns, website traffic usually surges, and thatá a good thing for your business, but not if you aren’t ready for these spikes!
A CDN for eCommerce can handle these spikes in traffic without compromising performance, ensuring a smooth experience for all customers.
- Boosts Search Engine Rankings
As mentioned earlier, website speed is a ranking factor for search engines. By improving site speed, a CDN for eCommerce can help you rank higher in search results, driving more organic traffic to your store.
Remember, you’re competing with thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of other stores in your geographical location. So why compromise and settle for slow speeds?
- Delivers High-Quality Media Quickly
High-quality images and videos of your products are essential for a long-lasting first impression. How would customers buy from you if they don’t get to visually see what you sell?
However, the problem with high-quality media is that it often takes up a lot of storage space. For example, a high-res image can exceed 1 MB in file size. Despite high-speed internet connections, loading this file size is a disaster for your website.
This is where CDN does its magic. Rapyd CDN ensures that these media files load quickly by compressing and caching them, creating a visually appealing and engaging shopping experience.
- Enhances Personalized Shopping
CDNs can efficiently deliver dynamic content, allowing you to personalize the shopping experience for each customer. This can lead to increased customer satisfaction and higher conversion rates.
Our fully managed Woocommerce hosting has a built-in Rapyd CDN that allows your eCommerce stores to run like a sports car.
Why Choose Rapyd Cloud for Your CDN Needs?
We have recently launched Rapyd CDN, our in-built free WordPress CDN specifically designed for dynamic websites on Rapyd Cloud’s hosting servers.
With Rapyd Cloud’s best managed WordPress hosting and the power of Rapyd CDN, you get:
- Superior Speed and Performance: Leveraging a global network of servers and advanced caching techniques, Rapyd CDN delivers exceptional speed and performance, ensuring your website loads quickly for users anywhere in the world.
- Enhanced Reliability and Uptime: Rapyd CDN’s robust infrastructure and redundant systems ensure high availability and minimal downtime, keeping your online store accessible to customers 24/7.
- Scalability for Growth: As your business grows, Rapyd CDN can scale seamlessly to handle increasing traffic and data demands, ensuring consistent performance.
- Round-the-clock Support: Ran into some problems? Or just confused about how it all adds up for better site speed? Let our experts know and they’ll take care of everything.
Here’s a Customer Success Spotlight
Veteran Hundo Club is a social platform that used to struggle with slow load times, to the tune of up to 60 seconds. Prolonged loading of websites will eventually tarnish brand reputation eventually driving it out of business.
That’s the threat Veteran Hundo Club was facing. While they were already using Namehero’s cloud solution, the services offered were no match to the price that they paid.
To top it off, they were already using BuddyBoss, a WP plugin that converts your website to a dynamic social platform. But running a site like this requires scalable cloud resources, which they didn’t get through their previous hosting provider.
Enter Rapyd Cloud.
When they learned about our powerful, scalable and reliable cloud hosting service, they immediately made the decision to take a leap of faith and migrate to us.
While hesitant at first, the migration was a smooth process, ensuring zero downtime. By the time you read this paragraph, their website was already migrated, showing great improvements in speed.
The best part? They didn’t face any downtime, nor technical glitches like they did with their previous hosting provider.
The Road Ahead..
If you’re launching or have already launched an online store, a membership site or an LMS-based course website, now is the best time to integrate our 1-click Rapyd CDN!
We are also working to add in new features in our Rapyd CDN and one of them is Rule Set Manager, with which, you’ll be able to set custom rules for caching, redirecting, and more.
While the one-click CDN feature will still do its job, if you’re an advanced user, you’ll soon be able to optimize CDN rules for unique site requirements.
For us, the sky’s the limit and we will continue delivering exceptional performance upgrades to ensure that your websites load blazing fast, and your customers keep on returning back to your store!
We’re in the business of growing your business.
The road ahead in 2025 and beyond is exciting for us and we’re sure it’ll be the same for you too.
We can’t be any more excited than seeing our clients getting the most out of their investment into reliable hosting services by Rapyd Cloud.
Ready to experience the power of Rapyd CDN? Explore our solutions today and unlock the potential of your online business.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a CDN, and how does it improve website performance?
A CDN is a network of servers that caches website content closer to users, reducing latency and improving loading times.
How does website speed affect e-commerce sales?
Slow websites lead to higher bounce rates, lower conversions, and negative SEO impact, all of which negatively affect sales.
What are the advantages of using a CDN for my online store?
A CDN improves site speed, handles traffic surges, enhances mobile performance, and boosts SEO, all leading to increased sales.
How do I integrate a CDN into my e-commerce platform?
Rapyd CDN offers easy integration with various platforms, including WordPress and WooCommerce. Our support team can assist with the process.
How does Rapyd Cloud’s CDN differ from others?
Rapyd CDN offers superior speed, reliability, scalability, and expert support, tailored for the demands of e-commerce businesses.
