About Fastly
Fastly is a leading content delivery network (CDN) helping businesses deliver their sites and apps faster and more securely to their end ends.
Fastly’s customers include The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Financial Times, and Stripe among others.
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Chinafy works with websites using Fastly. Learn more about Chinafy vs. Fastly and why industry-leading companies use both solutions together.
Issues with Fastly in China
Two primary challenges:
Compatibility Issues
Western CDNs vs. China CDNs in China
CDNs perform a variety of functions, the most traditional being accelerating the "delivery of content".
The primary reason sites don’t ‘work’ in China is due to compatibility issues, which CDNs are unable to fully address.
Compatibility
A website or web page typically comprises of ~100 components called resources. This includes both visible components like images, Facebook-like widgets, Google Maps or ‘behind the scenes’ components like JavaScript.
Some of these resources are blocked in China, causing loading times to be affected as a whole, while other resources load slowly if at all because the server/network is too slow.
Speed & Infrastructure
Western CDNs and China CDNs perform differently in China. Reference Cedexis’ CDNs comparison China Report.