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# CDN

A CDN serves static assets from locations close to your visitors, cutting load time for distant users. Find it under **Performance** → **CDN** in your website dashboard. Available on Premium plans and higher; on some plans it's enabled automatically for new sites.

## Enable CDN

1. Open your website dashboard.
2. Go to **Performance** → **CDN**.
3. Enable it for your domain.

Static assets route through the CDN automatically — no code changes. Controls are per domain, so a site with several domains can have different settings for each.

## Disable CDN

**Performance** → **CDN** → disable for the domain.

## Purge the CDN cache

After updating assets, purge so the CDN fetches fresh copies.

1. Go to **CDN**.
2. Click **Purge cache**.

Full refresh may take a few minutes to propagate globally.

## What the CDN caches

Static files:

* Images (`.jpg`, `.png`, `.gif`, `.webp`, `.svg`)
* CSS
* JavaScript
* Fonts
* Videos and media

Dynamic content (PHP pages, form posts, API responses) is never CDN-cached — it always goes to your origin.

## Optimization settings

The CDN panel includes asset-optimization options you can toggle per domain — compression and related speed features. Pair them with [PageSpeed](/websites/pagespeed.md) test runs to measure the effect.

## Security controls

Beyond caching, the CDN panel includes access controls enforced at the edge:

* **IP block list** — block specific IP addresses before they reach your site.
* **Traffic blocking by country** — block visitors from selected countries, or switch to **Allowed countries** mode to permit only the countries you list.

> **Warning:** In Allowed-countries mode, visitors from every unlisted country are blocked — double-check the list includes all your real audiences (and your own location).

## Analytics

The CDN panel shows per-domain metrics: requests served by the CDN, bandwidth saved, and cache performance. Use them to confirm the CDN is actually absorbing traffic after you enable it.

## SSL

CDN-served assets are delivered over HTTPS when your site uses SSL.

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*Last updated: July 22, 2026*