Want your Webflow-hosted site to be faster, and with better Core Web Vitals and Google Lighthouse scores? Do you need to cache your site to stay within your Webflow-hosted site plan limits?
There are a lot of factors that go into an efficiently-delivered, high-performing site, but there are two fundamental factors that apply to every site-
Both of these are solved with Sygnal's Hyperspeed reverse proxy solution.
Our high-performance edge-caching network assures that your files are delivered as efficiently as possible, with only necessary traffic passing through to Webflow's live hosting server.
We identify all of the image and video assets throughout your site, and use high-performance edge-caching to make certain your website files are as close as possible to the user requesting them.
This has the effect of speeding up your site, and also reduces traffic and bandwidth to Webflow's origin servers by 80% to 95%, depending on your site design and the Hyperspeed configuration we build.
Sygnal's Hyperspeed has excellent coverage for asset identification;
<style> CSS in your page that references Webflow assetsOptionally, we can add the capability to automatically optimize and resize your images throughout your site as high quality WEBP's for minimum file size. We do this not only for your assets, but for all of your CMS-stored images as well - and we do it automatically, even if new content is added later.
The exact performance improvement depends on your site and content.
In general, we typically see 10 to 20 points of improvement in Google Lighthouse Scores.
Note: performance is an important aspect of your SEO strategy as well. This can mean a substantial improvement in your Core Web Vitals.
We primarily use Cloudflare for our custom reverse proxy builds, due to its blazingly fast edge-cached architecture and high-performance workers.
Sygnal charges a one-time fee of $1,997 usd for a full setup. **
This includes...
** If your DNS is already running on Cloudflare, or you migrate your DNS yourself ( in an un-proxied configuration ) and then invite Sygnal in as an administrator, we can discount the setup cost by $350.
For highly active sites that publish frequently, we can add a second part to your integration which is a cache purge that automatically clears your cached content whenever you republish your Webflow site. This allows users to see your new content immediately on publication, rather than waiting for the cache to expire.
For image-heavy sites, we can also build your Hyperspeed configuration to automatically resize oversized images and convert all images to WEBP. This w
Note: Webflow has recently added the ability to auto-convert your CMS assets to WEBP's as well, which we highly recommend as a general best-practice. However this does not resize over-sized images. Hyperspeed can improve on this by resizing all over-sized images, and automatically converting all images to WEBP's even when new content is added directly by your client through the Content Editor and CMS.
This feature adds a one-time cost of $750 usd to the project.
Each Hyperflow build is a custom development project, and we bill it as part of Sygnal's micro-consulting service, with the fixed cost shown above. We'll invoice you in advance of the project and we schedule each project in as soon as the payment is received.
Learn more about Sygnal's micro-consulting here.
Hyperspeed leverages two core features of Cloudflare, and offers a fully managed monitoring & maintenance service we highly recommend.
There are two features you'll need on Cloudflare -
Optionally, if you want dynamic image type conversion and resizing, Hyperspeed can provide that and uses Cloudflare's Image Processing.
We generally recommend that you start with Cloudflare's $25/mo monthly plan for the first few months until everything is setup, and then switch to their annual plan to reduce the ongoing cost by 20%.
We also highly recommend our new Hyperspeed Monitoring & Maintenance service to ensure your site is closely monitored and continues running smoothly even through Webflow's regular changes.
The Internet is continually growing and changing, and both Webflow and Cloudflare occasionally make changes that could interfere with Hyperspeed's ability to cache your site fully.
As an example, Webflow's recent June 1st 2024 change to its assets hosting required a rapid update and redeployment of Hyperspeed to our managed client sites to maintain full caching coverage.
To fully protect your site, Sygnal offers a full monitoring & maintenance service, as well as a new maintenance-only option.
Monitoring includes-
Maintenance includes-
Costs;
Our Hyperspeed Monitoring & Maintenance service is not required, however it's essential if you want to ensure maximum uptime for your site and assurance that your caching and performance are fully working and being continually enhanced.
We have a lot of ideas on the table. While we can't make specific feature commitments on what can be integrated directly into Hyperspeed, or provide dates, these are some of the additions we're exploring.
Your domain name will remain wherever you've registered it.
Your DNS will need to be migrated to Cloudflare ( we will set that up for you ). This process is simple, and once it's setup you simply change your nameservers at your domain registrar to use Cloudflare's DNS.
Once that's complete, we do all of the programming and configuration needed within your Cloudflare account.
There are no changes to your Webflow hosting or hosting configuration.
Yes. Your site has end-to-end SSL.
None at all. You can continue publishing and updating your site as normal.
We'll build and test your reverse proxy, and the process of activating it is seamless. However we do prefer to do this step after hours ( as defined by your site's primary audience & geographic location ), just as a part of our sysops best practices.
If you use Google analytics, it's an ideal way to determine your daily and weekly low-traffic periods.
Any time you want to disable the reverse proxy, you can either;
Either approach will return your Webflow site to its original un-proxied configuration.
In an edge cached site, our goal is to cache your Webflow site as much as possible. We can configure your caching depending on your publishing needs.
Typically, we use a 4 hour cache for HTML, which means that if you edit a blog post and republish it, it may take up to 4 hours for those changes to appear for some users. We can vary this to balance your performance goals with your update needs.
This is the one situation we have not fully tested. None of our current clients use Webflow ECommerce. If you use it, let us know.
Contact us to make arrangements as soon as possible, and we'll schedule in your reverse proxy build. It takes less than a week for us to complete setup, but we have a lot of client requests so the timing will depend on our availability.
If you are in an emergency situation, let us known that you need an emergency solution, and we'll see if we can re-prioritize our project commitments. There's a surcharge for this added work of 50%.
Once the invoicing is complete, the process looks like this;
We'll do videos for you to familiarize you with Cloudflare's reports and how to monitor them.
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