I have an issue with two of my websites. I switched them to https today and now MaxCDN is not recognized by the webpagetest anymore.
I talked to the support from MaxCDN, they are friendly and helpful, all settings are correct (I use WordPress and W3 Total Cache, latest versions each). They cannot explain why Webpagetest.org doesn’t recognize the CDN.
I was wondering if anyone around here had an idea that could help me to fix this. I don’t think the results will have a positive or negative impact on SEO (please correct me if I am wrong), but I would like to understand what is going on and see the much better results I used to have again (almost everything used to be an A).
If someone is interested, the according domains are https://www.taniaflores.com and https://www.ceho.de (please delete them from the post if it’s not appropriate to the URL’s them here).
You sure it’s actually running on the CDN configuration?
Resolving the IP for www.taniaflores.com from the east and west coasts in the US I get 81.169.153.30 as the IP address (which also reverse-lookups to taniaflores.com). That alone wouldn’t necessarily say anything since MaxCDN uses an anycast network but the traceroutes from both the east and west coast of the US seem to be routing to Europe.
Yes, I am quite sure. You can check on pages like pingdom
or with Google Page Speed and you will see that all files are served from the CDN.
And like I said, the support staff from MaxCDN actually confirmed the settings should be correct. Nevertheless there seems to be an issue, otherwise the CDN would still be recognized correctly after switching from http to https, am I right?
I think the problem is that the Firefox tests you ran weren’t showing the resources coming from the CDN (possibly because they are SPDY which isn’t currently reported for Firefox or IE). If you test in Chrome you can see the requests and CDN detection correctly: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150724_1F_b67c5bdac05d3239a8890dba9a6eabfa/