If you own a small website, or own a smartphone app, you can speed up your website and apps by unloading the script by using existing Public CDN. This enables you to save bandwidth and improve overall user experience by loading popular JavaScript libraries and CSS frameworks from a public content delivery network.
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It recommends that you load libraries from the CDN via HTTPS, even if your own website only uses HTTP. Nowadays, performance is fast, and caching works just the same. The CDN’s files are served with CORS and Timing-Allow headers and allowed to be cached for 1 year.
1. Google Hosted Libraries
The Google Hosted Libraries is a stable, reliable, high-speed, globally available content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries. Google works directly with the key stakeholders for each library effort and accepts the latest versions as they are released.
Available Libraries – AngularJS, Angular Material, Angular UI Router, Dojo, Ext Core, Hammer.JS, Indefinite Observable, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, jQuery UI, MooTools, Prototype, script.aculo.us, Shaka Player, SPF, SWFObject, three.js, and Web Font Loader.
2. Microsoft Ajax CDN
The Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network (CDN) hosts popular third party JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and enables you to easily add them to your Web applications. By taking advantage of the CDN, you can significantly improve the performance of your Ajax applications. The contents of the CDN are cached on servers located around the world. In addition, the CDN enables browsers to reuse cached third party JavaScript files for web sites that are located in different domains.
Available Libraries – jQuery, jQuery Migrate, jQuery UI, jQuery Validation, jQuery Mobile, jQuery Templates, jQuery Cycle, jQuery DataTables, Modernizr, JSHint, Knockout, Globalize, Respond, Bootstrap, Bootstrap TouchCarousel, Hammer.js, ASP.NET Web Forms and Ajax, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET SignalR.
3. jsDelivr CDN
A free super-fast CDN for developers and webmasters. As a developer, you are probably aware of Google Hosted Libraries. Google offers an easy and fast way to include 14 popular JavaScript libraries in your websites. But what if you are a webmaster and you want to take advantage of a fast CDN with other less popular projects too? Or if you are a developer and you want to make your project easier to access and use by other users?
This is where jsDelivr comes into play. jsDelivr is a free and open source CDN created to help developers and webmasters. There are no popularity restrictions and all kinds of files are allowed, including JavaScript libraries, jQuery plugins, CSS frameworks, fonts and more.
Available Libraries – Almost 2000+ projects hosted including jQuery, Modernizr, Bootstrap, Font Awesome, etc.
4. cdnjs [ Cloudflare ]
Everyone loves the Google CDN right? Even Microsoft runs a public CDN. The problem is, they only host the most popular libraries. cdnjs host all the popular libraries – JavaScript, CSS, SWF, images, etc!
Available Libraries – Almost 3000+ libraries hosted including jquery, angular.js, twitter-bootstrap, font-awesome, moment.js, chart.js, bootstrap-datepicker, react, jqueryui, foundation, normalize, angular-ui-bootstrap, underscore.js, bootstrap-datetimepicker, angular-ui-router, semantic-ui, lodash.js, modernizr, select2, d3, vue, handlebars.js, fancybox, animate.css etc.
5. jQuery CDN [ MaxCDN ]
Powered by MaxCDN, jQuery CDN hosts the latest stable and legacy releases of its JavaScript libraries.
Available Libraries – jQuery Core, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, jQuery Color, QUnit, PEP.
6. PageCDN
PageCDN is a Content Delivery Network focused on accelerating website layouts. PageCDN does the job in an innovative way to ensure that the pages load in the least time possible. There are also around 2000 supported wordpress and bootstrap theme files ready for use.
Public CDNs are based on the concept that if the popular Open Source content is loaded through a common CDN, there is a better chance of an open source file being already available in the user’s browser cache when visiting a website.
Available Libraries – jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular, React, Vue, Easy Fonts, Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Feather Icons, Ionicons, Simple Icons, Super Tiny Icons.
Hi. It would be nice if you make this list complete by including PageCDN. PageCDN has a unique feature set that optimizes website performance to extremes. Content Delivery from multiple POP locations is just the first of several optimizations that PageCDN can do for your websites seamlessly.
It serves content using brotli-11 compression (that can save upto 30% more compared to gzip), better parallelizes content, provides Fonts CDN (named as Easy Fonts) to save on DNS lookups and solves the ‘Leverage Browser Caching’ issue that you face when using Google Fonts, supports HTTP/2 Server Push and allows private files to be uploaded to the CDN. PageCDN’s WordPress plugin automatically takes all these optimizations into consideration and can provide the best performance that you can expect from a CDN.
You’re an idiot. The breaking CLEARLY says FREE CDNs
You should have checked the site before leaving this comment. PageCDN is a Public CDN too that is 100% free. Did you check the site?
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