A content delivery network (CDN) is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers. Its benefits include high availability, performance, and resilience against DDoS attacks. The network serves your website from the nearest and fastest servers to end users. You can find out more about it in the following video:

At Hostinger, if you have a Web Business or greater hosting plan, you can easily enable Hostinger CDN - it comes with a variety of tools that you can employ to optimize your website. Go to the Websites section on hPanel and click Dashboard next to the website in question. Then, search for CDN. If it is not enabled, enable it:

Access more settings by clicking on the arrow (❯) button:

Now, explore the CDN features and make your website work smoothly!

WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. On average, this image format achieves 30% more compression than JPEG and JPEG 2000 without losing image quality.
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If you enable this feature, the images on your website are automatically optimized into an efficient WebP format to reduce file size and improve load times without any URL changes. It is enabled by default; you can disable it by toggling the button next to WebP image compression:

You can enable or disable this feature at any time.

This feature determines the maximum image width and image quality for both desktop and mobile devices. You may customize these settings manually anytime.

This feature is enabled for you by default, but you can easily disable it by toggling the button next to Smart image optimization:

You can learn more about optimization by checking this tutorial: Complete guide to image optimization 💡

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