Previously, we have an article explaining why Contentful doesn’t work in China already, we also provided an alternative solution that helps teams to get Contentful to work in China. In this blog, we are going to give you solutions in detail about how to make Contentful work in China without switching CMS.
Getting Contentful to work in China
We have two solutions for you to choose from, both of these solutions offer the best loading time experience to your websites’ readers as well as your content teams.
Solution 1: For teams outside of China
If you are outside of China, your website published with Contentful is slow mainly because of two reasons:
1. Contentful doesn’t have servers or CDN (Content Delivery Network) nodes in China.
This is obvious, but I still want to put it here because it is just one of the two reasons why your website is slow in China. For longer explaining why servers of Contentful are slow in China, read Does Contentful Work in China? for reference.
2. Your website hosting provider doesn’t have servers or CDN nodes in China.
This is another reason why your website is slow in China.
Let’s take a look at how this relates to your website and the Contentful. If we look at the website deployment process at a high level and say you are making a change on an article on your website. Here are what happen behind the scene:
When you press the “Save” or “Publish” button on an article in the dashboard of the Contentful, the Contentful backend trigger a “build and deploy” message onto the hosting providers (the popular ones outside of China are Netlify and Vercel)
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