We are excited to announce a new feature for Tinify CDN: custom domain. This allows Tinify CDN users to personalize their URL with their own brand (“example.com”), without having to include Tinify’s delivery domain (“tinifycdn.com”). This feature is now accessible for the Enterprise Plan due to high demand from businesses.

Why set up your own Tinify CDN custom domain?

A custom domain is important when using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for the following reasons:

• Branding and identity: By using a custom domain, you can maintain a consistent brand identity across your website or application. This reinforces your brand instead of using the CDN provider’s domain.
• Trust and credibility: A custom domain enhances trust and credibility. Visitors are more likely to trust a website with a familiar and custom domain rather than one that appears to be served from a generic CDN domain.
• SEO benefits: Having a custom domain can positively impact your search engine optimization efforts. Search engines may view content delivered from a custom domain as more legitimate and trustworthy.
• Easy migration and switching CDNs: If you decide to switch CDN providers or make changes to your CDN setup, having a custom domain makes the process smoother. You can update your DNS records to point to the new CDN without changing your actual domain.

All in all, by setting up your own domain name with Tinify CDN, you can maintain your brand identity and provide a consistent experience for your users. 

How to set up your own custom domain on Tinify CDN’s dashboard?

Here’s what you need to know about setting up your custom domain with Tinify CDN. You’ll need:

• A CDN account with the Enterprise plan
• A registered domain
• A SSL/TLS certificate 
• Permission to modify the DNS records of your domain

To set up your own custom domain, you’ll need to obtain a valid TLS certificate for your domain. A Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate is a digital certificate that authenticates and encrypts a website. The main purpose of a TLS certificate is to guarantee the privacy and integrity of data exchanged between the user and the website. 

Nowadays a TLS certificate is required for normal web browsing. For instance, when using Google Chrome, if a website lacks a TLS certificate, visitors will be shown a warning message stating “this page is not secure”. In this way, users can easily identify secure websites and build trust. Moreover, search engines like Google consider TLS as a ranking factor. Websites with TLS certificates may receive a slight boost in search engine rankings, encouraging website owners to prioritize security measures.

To generate this certificate, you must choose a Certificate Authority (CA), which is an entity that issues digital certificates and is regarded as a trusted entity by all major browsers and operating systems – e.g Comodo (CA), DigiCert (CA).

Once you have it, you can set up your custom domain on Tinify’s dashboard by following these instructions. The final step, which involves configuring your DNS (Domain Name System), is also clarified in the provided guide. Essentially, you’ll have to replace “xxxxxx.tinifycdn.com” with your custom domain on the DNS settings of the dashboard of your domain registrar or DNS provider – e.g. GoDaddy, NameCheap, Gandi.

If you have any questions on how to set up your custom domain, reach out at support@tinify.com. 

Why sign up for Tinify CDN’s Enterprise Plan?

If your website has slow loading times, increased traffic volume, large media files, or an international audience, implementing a CDN can be beneficial. CDNs improve website performance by reducing data travel distance and caching content in different geographic locations. 

Without a CDN, a website relies on a single server and connection. This means that the further away users are from your location, the longer it takes for your content to load. However, with a CDN network, the website’s data is loaded from a server closer to the user, resulting in improved performance.

Tinify CDN stands out from other CDN providers because it is both an Image CDN and a Multi-CDN. This means that our CDN can compress images in real time, making your website faster without sacrificing quality. Additionally, we work with multiple Content Delivery Networks to ensure worldwide coverage and minimize potential downtimes.

The Enterprise plan gives you more bandwidth and support, with unlimited media library size, 1500 GB per month of bandwidth, and 10 sites included. This plan is specifically designed for high-volume websites and businesses.

“We are very focused on performance because the websites we build have very large quantities of images and they have to be very high-resolution. To give you an example, we serve up about 200GB of images alone from one website. So it didn’t just speed up the website when we use Tinify CDN, it was speeding up that import process.”

Matt Neal, Project Manager at STAFFLINK

How STAFFLINK improves real estate website performance with Tinify CDN

The main features of Tinify CDN include:

• Advanced optimization: Tinify’s proven techniques automatically optimize your images.
• Global content delivery: Deliver your content through multiple independent networks with servers near your users.
• Redundancy: Tinify CDN can use failover mechanisms to redirect traffic when servers fail. If a server is unreachable or has problems, the CDN can send requests to another server, reducing downtime and ensuring uninterrupted service.
• Instant configuration: Easily start serving optimized images regardless of how your website is built.
• Secure by default: Connect via HTTPS for safe usage of your images on secure websites.
• Simple resizing: Edit the image address to generate a different image size effortlessly.
• Simple dashboard: Modify settings and track data usage conveniently with our user-friendly dashboard.

Still new to Tinify CDN? Visit Tinify CDN’s homepage and sign up for a 14-day trial, with no credit card details needed. 

TL;DR

• Tinify CDN now offers custom domains for users on the Enterprise plan. 
• This feature was highly requested by businesses who prefer using their own brand name in the URL instead of Tinify CDN’s domain. 
• This helps businesses maintain a consistent brand identity on their website or application, which is important for SEO and online credibility. 
• To set up your custom domain with Tinify CDN, you need an Enterprise plan account, a registered domain, a TLS certificate, and permission to modify your domain’s DNS records.

Evert Albers specializes in creating visual identities and websites for clients in the renewable energy sector. As a graphic and web designer with customers from various regions, ensuring an efficient user experience and fast website loading is crucial. With this, Tinify CDN became part of Evert’s workflow.

Key results:

• Enhanced performance: By implementing Tinify CDN, Evert’s clients experienced better website performance, resulting in faster load times.
• Global accessibility: The global server network of Tinify CDN ensured that users from various regions could access the websites with minimal latency, catering to Evert’s international clientele.
• Technical Bridge: Evert’s non-technical background didn’t hinder his ability to optimize website performance. Tinify CDN provided a user-friendly solution that seamlessly integrated into his workflow.

Background: Tinify CDN’s first customer

Back in 2019, when the Tinify team started developing its CDN product, Evert was one of the first people testing the script that enabled faster website loading. While these days Tinify CDN is used by both technical and non-technical users, the initial focus was to ensure that everyone, from designers to developers, could effortlessly integrate Tinify CDN. 

“I find myself in a position where I have to communicate between two worlds, design and development. CDN was already much connected with my own job as a web designer, so it was just a matter of adding the Tinify CDN prefix to my clients’ URLs.”

Evert Albers, freelance graphic and web designer

Seamless implementation ensures that Tinify CDN operates quietly in the background, just as it should. Evert mentions that when he adds a new website to his CDN dashboard, it becomes almost effortless for him: “For me, it’s very simple. It fits perfectly into the amount of knowledge that I have. It’s so straightforward that I often forget it’s there.”

Solution: Multi-CDN for international reach

Evert highlights that for customers with an international reach, access to Tinify CDN was an added benefit to his services:

“A lot of what I do is in English, and sometimes I have clients reaching out to me from Asia or the United States. Their audiences are mainly international, so instead of being totally dependent on one main server to deliver content across the world, CDN makes the content available faster by serving it from servers located in different geographical points.”

Evert Albers, freelance graphic and web designer

In addition to this, Tinify CDN is made up of multiple content delivery networks (i.e. Multi-CDN), which is especially relevant for international customers such as the ones Evert caters to.

By definition, a CDN is useful to reduce latency and ensure faster content delivery. It makes the website faster because it stores copies of the content on servers in different places, so when someone in Asia or the United States visits the site, they get the information from a server closer to them. This makes the website load quickly and work smoothly for everyone.

But as a Multi-CDN, Tinify CDN ensures that if one server has a problem, the others can still keep the website running, reducing the chances of it going offline. In simple terms, using multiple CDNs is a smart move for international websites because it ensures users have a fast and reliable experience, which is great for the websites’ reputation and popularity.

In addition, Evert highlights the dual benefits of implementing Tinify CDN. Not only does it tackle slow load times across the globe but also offers an effective image compression feature. As an example, Evert mentions its usefulness in reducing image file sizes for websites “with a lot of images to illustrate technical developments in renewable energy”.

Conclusion

Web designer Evert Albers uses Tinify CDN to boost website performance for international clients in niche industries such as renewable energy. By making the most of Tinify CDN’s image optimization features and worldwide server network, Evert enhanced his clients’ websites, resulting in quicker load times for international audiences, and improved user experience. This story shows how non-tech-savvy professionals can enhance their clients’ websites with minimal setup.

Tinify’s membership in the CDN Alliance showcases its commitment to the CDN industry and support for standardized practices.

Amersfoort – October 18, 2023 – Tinify, renowned for its image compression technology, proudly announced its membership in the CDN Alliance, an independent non-governmental organization dedicated to connecting and supporting the global CDN (Content Delivery Network) industry. This strategic move firmly establishes Tinify’s presence in the CDN market.

This development follows Tinify’s recent transition from its beta version to the final release of its CDN service, marking the beginning of a new era after two years of beta testing. 

According to CTO Remco Koopmans, the decision to join is motivated by the CDN Alliance’s capacity to provide CDN industry players with a valuable opportunity to voice their ideas and be heard, which would otherwise be hard to accomplish without a central hub.

“CDN Alliance is well-known for its activities, which allows us to engage with CDN experts and actively collaborate with them as members of a community”, explained Koopmans.

This is particularly significant for Tinify, as it operates not only as an image CDN, offering image compression on the fly, but also as a multi-CDN, integrating multiple CDN providers into a single solution to ensure comprehensive global coverage. To this extent, effective communication with various CDN providers is pivotal to Tinify’s operations. 

However, as COO Matthijs Plat pointed out, this can be challenging due to the varying standards and definitions employed by different CDN suppliers, making seamless integration into a unified solution a complex task. The CDN Alliance is actively addressing this issue by advocating for standardization and regulation. 

“They are making progress in favor of standardization, and we are eager to be a part of these efforts,” said Plat.

CDN Alliance’s Chairman, Mark de Jong echoed this sentiment: “We are very excited with Tinify joining the CDN Alliance with their expert knowledge in image compression and multi-CDN. Looking forward to working with Tinify and other members on activities and in working groups in relation to CDN and Content Delivery.”

About Tinify

Tinify, also known as TinyPNG, is a company dedicated to improving website performance through image optimization. They are well-known as pioneers in image compression and have extended their services to include a high-speed Content Delivery Network (CDN) for optimal website delivery.

Contacts

Tinify

support@tinify.com

CDN Alliance

info@cdnalliance.org

“We are very focused on performance because the websites we build have very large quantities of images and they have to be very high-resolution. To give you an example, we serve up about 200GB of images alone from one website. So it didn’t just speed up the website when we use Tinify CDN, it was speeding up that import process.”

Matt Neal, Project Manager at STAFFLINK

STAFFLINK is a leading Australian company that provides digital solutions for the real estate industry. With a dedicated team of professionals, they help real estate professionals improve property management operations and increase productivity. 

In the online world of real estate, a big challenge is cramming in tons of high-resolution images for potential house buyers to view. Unfortunately, these images that are large in size contribute to sluggish website performance – imagine eager visitors seeking their dream home, only to be met with the frustrating spinning loading icon. To conquer this challenge, STAFFLINK uses Tinify CDN to build faster real estate websites.

Key results:

• Efficient image handling: With Tinify CDN, STAFFLINK optimizes their clients’ image delivery process. Instead of manually resizing images for various screen sizes, they now upload raw images to their Amazon S3 bucket and let Tinify handle resizing and compression. This streamlined approach reduced manual efforts and improved efficiency.
• Faster website load times: By serving optimized images through Tinify CDN, STAFFLINK significantly improved the loading times of their clients’ websites. This enhancement is particularly crucial for real estate websites, where high-resolution property images are integral to the user experience.
• Simplified workflow: STAFFLINK no longer needed to spend time on image compression and resizing, allowing their developers to focus on other aspects of website development and optimization.
• Cost-effective solution: Tinify CDN’s competitive pricing structure appealed to STAFFLINK as the initial pricing tier provided an affordable entry point, making it feasible for them to scale their usage as needed.

Background: Looking for efficient image delivery

STAFFLINK’s project manager Matt Neal explained that uploading and storing images on Amazon S3 prompted them to explore the need for a reliable Content Delivery Network (CDN) to optimize image delivery. During their search, Tinify CDN came up as a solid option: 

“I’ve been using Tinify’s website to compress images since 2014. It does a really good job, it’s fast and free. Then I came across Tinify CDN when I was looking for alternatives to serving large amounts of high-resolution images.”

According to Matt, Tinify CDN was exactly what the team was looking for – it had the usual characteristics of a CDN while offering the option to compress and resize images on the fly:

“Our property listing pages typically present around 30 high-resolution images each. If we served them in their raw format, we’d literally have about 100 MB worth of images on one single page load. That’s just not possible.”

Matt Neal, Project Manager at STAFFLINK

Solution: Implementing Tinify CDN to automate image resizing and compression

Before implementing Tinify CDN, managing hundreds of property uploads involved a time-consuming process of resizing and compressing images:

“It’s a very long process dealing with hundreds of properties a day. Before, we’d wrestle with downloading, converting, resizing – you name it – so we were able to cut all that out. The first load might have a tiny delay as Tinify CDN works its compression magic, but all the heavy lifting is on its end, not ours.”

With an Image CDN like Tinify’s, STAFFLINK streamlined its image processing workflow, resulting in a significant speed boost in page loads. They solved the challenges tied to handling large images by automatically serving compressed, properly sized visuals. According to Matt, this is a “pretty big deal”:

“We are very focused on performance because the websites we build have very large quantities of images and they have to be very high-resolution. To give you an example, we serve up about 200GB of images alone from one website. So it didn’t just speed up the website when we use the CDN, it was speeding up that import process.”

Matt Neal, Project Manager at STAFFLINK

In addition, Matt says that Tinify CDN stands out from other providers due to its straightforward configuration. While considering alternatives, he found that many were either too complex or restrictive in terms of customization: “I spent maybe 30 minutes to an hour trying to get another CDN to work. And there were a whole bunch of issues. So then I went with Tinify, I tested it and it worked straight away.”

Conclusion

STAFFLINK, an Australian digital solutions provider for real estate, implemented Tinify CDN to automatically resize and compress hundreds of their clients’ property images. This results in quicker website loading times for STAFFLINK’s clients, positively impacting the experience of potential homebuyers. For STAFFLINK, Tinify CDN allowed them to simplify their workflow with just a few clicks, saving them from the trouble of resizing and compressing images using many time-consuming tools.

Need a way to make your image-heavy website load faster? Give Tinify CDN a try with our free trial!

“Performance is more and more important for our clients, and by using Tinify CDN’s services we are able to get outstanding performance scores”

Michael Mol, Founder of Immer

Immer, a Dutch-based web development company, specializes in creating online platforms and websites primarily using Drupal’s content management system. The company’s core goal is to optimize website performance and deliver a seamless user experience. With this, it was a no-brainer for them to explore various Content Delivery Network (CDN) options, and ultimately sign-up for Tinify CDN.

Key results:

• Simple configuration: Tinify CDN requires minimal technical changes, making it suitable for a small team like Immer. With it working quietly behind the scenes, Immer’s team of 10 employees can focus on other aspects of web development without investing time in complex setup and maintenance.
• PNG and WebP format support: Tinify CDN stands out by compressing images on the fly, reducing file sizes by up to 80% without noticeable quality loss. At first, its focus on PNG compression was a crucial factor for Immer, and later, when they made the switch to WebP, they found it just as advantageous.

Why implement a CDN

In short, a CDN ensures that users around the world experience reduced latency and faster content delivery without any delay. This is possible because a CDN speeds up online content by delivering it from a network of servers located closer to the end user – the shorter the distance that data has to travel, the better. In this way, implementing a CDN is an easy way to improve website performance, as it requires minimal technical changes to configure it, and performance gains can be seen immediately. 

Immer’s founder Michael Mol explains that the company considered factors such as pricing, features, and support for their technical requirements when looking at CDN options. While there were other alternatives available, Immer was already familiar with Tinify’s image compression services, which they had previously tried out for free. Eventually, this was the defining factor for their choice:

“Obviously, we looked at alternatives, even free and cheaper options, but Tinify CDN had some great support for PNGs which sparked our interest.”

Michael Mol, Founder of Immer

Tinify CDN sets itself apart from other options by not only enhancing load times but also compressing images on the fly. For a company like Immer, this was important as they also build websites that are image-heavy. When using PNGs, which are typically larger than other image formats, the ability to upload and automatically display the compressed versions of the original images guarantees an even more optimized website. This is done by reducing the file size by up to 80% with unnoticeable changes in quality. 

For Michael, this feature is particularly useful for one of their customer segments: “For instance, we have customers in publishing, and these websites can have a lot of images, which compromises how fast a website loads for people who visit it. That’s where Tinify CDN comes in.”

Tinify CDN’s simplicity

Michael says that even though they didn’t have specific benchmarks, they noted instant improvements on website speed. Furthermore, as the team switched to using WebP – a next-gen format that reduces file sizes by up to a third compared to JPEG and PNG images – Michael highlighted the fact that Tinify CDN could compress this format even further.

Nonetheless, on day to day, Tinify CDN is but an unassuming cog in Immer’s machine, working quietly behind the scenes. For a small team like Immer, made up of 10 employees, it is important to not waste time on complex configurations. For Michael, simplicity is key:

“That’s what we expected from Tinify as well: it should just work, running in the background.”

Michael Mol, Founder of Immer

Does your team value simplicity? Read more about how you can improve your company’s website speed with just a few clicks here.

Conclusion

Tinify’s reputation for effective image compression and the unique benefit of supporting PNG compression were key factors in Immer’s decision-making process. For this web development company, Tinify CDN’s ability to improve web speed, coupled with efficient image compression and support for new formats like WebP, has been useful in maintaining their website performance.

This blog post will walk you through the process of installing Tinify CDN on your WordPress website. It only takes a few minutes and you have the chance to try it out for 14 days with no credit card details required. By the end of this, your website will become faster and perform better for users!

One of the main advantages of using a WordPress website is the user-friendly interface that makes it perfect for both beginners and advanced users to manage their websites. Whether you have a small personal blog or a large enterprise website, WordPress allows you to scale your website by adding new content and integrate third-party services to extend the functionality of your website as your requirements evolve. 

This is how WordPress users can easily compress their images with our popular TinyPNG plugin to make their website faster on the go. But besides this, if you’re a WordPress user looking for even faster page load speeds, you can also take advantage of Tinify CDN – it only takes a few clicks!

Long, story short: Why use a CDN?

Is your WordPress website suffering from slow loading times? Or has your traffic volume increased? Does it contain large media files throughout its pages? Do you have an international audience? If you replied yes to any of these questions, then implementing a CDN is likely beneficial. 

CDNs improve website performance by reducing data travel distance and caching content in various geographic locations. A website that doesn’t use a CDN is dependent on a single server, in a single connection. This means that the further the users are from your location, the longer it takes for your content to load.

For example, when a person somewhere in Europe visits a website located in the US, the data has to travel a very long distance through servers, which consequently adds up to a longer loading time. However, when a website uses a CDN network, the data of the website will be loaded from a server closer to the user – in this case, somewhere in Europe. This drastically improves the performance of your website.

Tinify CDN is both an Image and Multi-CDN. This means two things: firstly, our CDN offers the ability to compress on the fly. Large images become the smallest size possible with no loss in quality, and this change, invisible to the eye, makes your website automatically faster. Secondly, we work with multiple Content Delivery Networks which ensures the greatest possible global coverage.  

1. Sign-up for Tinify CDN’s trial

Visit the Tinify CDN website and sign-up for an account. We give users the chance of trying it for free for 14 days, so no credit card details are required. You just need to provide your email address and website url.

If you’re already a Tinify user, you can also sign-up for a trial on your dashboard by clicking on the “CDN” link on the side-bar.

2. Obtain your Tinify CDN endpoint

After signing-up, you’ll get a welcome email so you can log-in to your Tinify account. Once you do it, you can access your CDN dashboard. There, you’ll find your CDN endpoint, which looks like this: “https//xxxxx.tinify.com”. This is a sort of personal “configuration code” that allows you to connect your WordPress website to Tinify CDN. Copy this CDN endpoint as you’ll need it later.

3. Download the WordPress CDN plugin “CDN Enabler”

Go to your WordPress dashboard and click on the “plugins” option on the side-bar. To configure a CDN in WordPress, you’ll need to download a plugin such as CDN Enabler. 

4. Configure the CDN on your WordPress account

After installing and activating the plugin, click on “Installed Plugins” on the side-bar and select the “Settings” under the CDN Enabler plugin. 

This will lead you to another page where you’ll see a field called “CDN Hostname”. Copy your Tinify CDN endpoint into this field. The last step is simply to click on the button “Save Changes”. That’s it!

How do you verify if Tinify CDN is working on your WordPress website?

After enabling the CDN, visit your website and inspect the source code of the page. Look for the URLs of your static assets, such as CSS files, JavaScript files and, of course, images. If the URLs of those assets contain the Tinify CDN domain, it means the integration has been successful!

Watch the instructions video:

Choose one of the 3 Tinify CDN plans

Once you’re done with your 14-days trial, you can sign-up for one of our plans: Basic, Business and Enterprise. The basic subscription is made for personal websites and blogs, while the business plan caters to professional and e-commerce websites. If you have specific business needs and demand more support, you can contact us so we can create a tailored enterprise plan for you.

Do you have any questions about Tinify CDN or its implementation? Shoot us an email at support@tinify.com. 

There’s a saying that the longer a cow stands, the more likely it is to lie down. The same goes for CDN services: the chances of them failing increase the longer they are online. There is why companies are now relying on Multi-CDN.