Can Anyone Guide me with Optimizing Image Delivery Performance?

samzyan

Hello there,

I am currently working on optimizing image delivery performance for a web application that heavily relies on Cloudinary for image management. While our setup is running smoothly, I am looking to further enhance our image delivery speeds.

These are some issues I want to discuss;

What are the best practices for optimizing image delivery speed using Cloudinary? Are there specific configurations or settings that could significantly improve performance?

How effective are caching strategies with Cloudinary? What caching mechanisms do you recommend to reduce load times for frequently accessed images?

Are there particular image formats that Cloudinary handles more efficiently in terms of delivery speed? Any insights on balancing image quality with delivery performance?

How can we best leverage Cloudinary's integration with CDNs to enhance delivery speeds globally? Are there specific CDN setups or configurations that have worked well for you?

Also, I have gone through this post; https://cloudinary.com/guides/web-performance/a-complete-guide-to-tableau-image-optimization which definitely helped me out a lot.

Could you share any real world examples or case studies where optimizations in image delivery using Cloudinary led to noticeable improvements in website performance?

Thank you in advance for your help and assistance.

SreeCloudinary

Hi @samzyan ,

Thanks for your questions.

What are the best practices for optimizing image delivery speed using Cloudinary? Are there specific configurations or settings that could significantly improve performance?

A: Optimization of the assets plays a signifcant role at the time of delivery. There are many factors to consider. I would recommend starting here: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/media_optimization and if you are specifically looking for image, please check: https://cloudinary.com/guides/web-performance/a-complete-guide-to-website-image-optimization

How effective are caching strategies with Cloudinary? What caching mechanisms do you recommend to reduce load times for frequently accessed images?

A: Cloudinary uses CDNs to efficiently distribute media assets across the web. With strategically located edge servers worldwide, including leading CDNs such as Akamai, Fastly, and Cloudflare, Cloudinary reduces latency and improves overall performance of images, videos, and other media.

More can be found here: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/advanced_url_delivery_options

Are there particular image formats that Cloudinary handles more efficiently in terms of delivery speed? Any insights on balancing image quality with delivery performance?

A: Here is the list of image formats that we support( https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_transformations#supported_image_formats Having said that, there is no particular recommended format. It depends on your use case and delivery. We have a trasnformation called f_auto which can deliver images based on the optimized format the browser supports.

https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_transformations#f_auto

How can we best leverage Cloudinary's integration with CDNs to enhance delivery speeds globally? Are there specific CDN setups or configurations that have worked well for you?

CDNs are integrating within Cloudinary. There are other setups such as having a private CDNs and any custom delivery hostnames as shown here:

https://cloudinary.com/documentation/advanced_url_delivery_options#private_cdns_and_custom_delivery_hostnames_cnames

I know it's a lot of reading :) Please feel free to ask questions.

Thanks,
Sree