CDNs have greatly improved our online experience. The CDN-H project has studied its implications for the internet’s structure and the relationship between stakeholders.
Google has recently announced that page speed would now be a factor in mobile search ranking. This is the most recent event in a long series of changes that has been not only changing our online experience for the better, but also has allowed for content delivery networks (CDNs) to thrive.
Although completely seamless, CDN is indeed a full-blown paradigm shift that changed how internet users access their content. Before CDN existed, connecting to a website meant downloading content from the server it was stored on until everything was properly displayed on screen.
