Should you use Cloudflare (CDN) on your website?

In today’s episode Steffen and Dominik are discussing content delivery networks (CDNs), with a focus on Cloudflare. CDNs are used to distribute static content to users more quickly and efficiently. However managing content on a CDN can be complicated, especially when it comes to caching and ensuring that content is consistent across different servers. In this episode you'll learn about some best practices for dealing with these issues.

Highlights
00:00 Intro
00:15 What is a CDN?
02:42 How to use a CDN
05:17 Pros and Cons of Push vs. Pull
08:16 Prevent inconsistent assets
14:10 Types of Caching
17:32 Full-Page Caching
18:51 What's special about Cloudflare
21:55 Does every website need a CDN?
25:12 GDPR compliance
27:53 Why we use Cloudflare
31:36 Pro tip

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[BrendaMalone]

Great discussion. Additionally, I have found Cloudflare to be slower than just serving from your own fast server.

Question.
When analyzing page performance for Core Web Vitals, if the pages are being served by Cloudflare, are you really just measuring Cloudflare's capabilities instead of the origin server? When a CWV report says to increase the caching period--do you increase it on the origin server, or Cloudflare or both? Thank you