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Back in late 2010 I was contacted by MaxCDN to try out their service and see if I liked it (yes, I was sponsored by them). I was beyond thrilled and agreed to give it a try. For those who are not aware about what their service is, here is their own description in their words.

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is for every site owner who demands a high performance, primo visitor experience. Why? Because our CDN delivers your downloadables – images, video, scripts, css – with super-fast load times.
CDN Plug-ins make MaxCDN a breeze to implement on WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, Magento and most other popular applications.

Even better? Faster load times can even boost your Google rankings and your website’s conversion rate!
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is for every site owner who demands a high performance, primo visitor experience. Why? Because our CDN delivers your downloadables – images, video, scripts, css – with super-fast load times. CDN Plug-ins make MaxCDN a breeze to implement on WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, Magento, and most other popular applications.

Even better? Faster load times can even boost your Google rankings and your website’s conversion rate!

However, after agreeing to the sponsorship I ran into issues with my own host and had to move my site around. Well after I finally got it fixed up in earlier this year and ran into a few issues. It appeared that it was not going to work, yet their amazing tech support helped me and made me realize that they have a great team behind them. This pleased me as I was eager to see the deal was all about.

As time went on and I checked my stats I didn’t really notice a difference. They claim that they help your ad conversion and loading time, but I never noticed any difference at all. This really disappointed me, but I do realize that as a smaller blog that I might not expect to see the bigger picture that larger blogs would, so I won’t say that it does not work on that just based on my blog. If I had more visitors and watched my stats before I used them, then yes I would have likely noticed a different. So I cannot fairly judge them on what they promise sadly. Despite of that I did find one major plus that I feel they should use as a marketing advantage and that is website stats.

I found their analytics just as good as Google’s, even if it is a bit better. It also seemed to be much more update often and that is a huge plus for those who hate Google. I found it to be very insightful and I feel like that made it well worth money in my opinion. It was also nice to see a mirrored version of your site, but I am not really sure why that exist if it doesn’t protect your site from hosting issues.

So as a whole I give them a solid 9 points out of 10. I really had no issues, they are very professional and best of all they do provide an amazing service. I just wish I was able to get a solid look at the service helping me to get more ad conversions for my own site. But at last, my blog just isn’t right up to that point yet. Maybe one day I will finally be able to test those waters out, but in the mean time I still highly recommend them for their fabulous analytics.