Content Delivery Network—a distributed network of servers that delivers web content from locations geographically closest to each visitor. CDNs dramatically reduce latency and load times for global audiences while providing redundancy if one server fails. Framer hosts all sites on a global CDN automatically, ensuring fast performance worldwide without additional configuration.

The process of reducing image file sizes while maintaining acceptable visual quality for faster page loads. Optimized images can be 10x smaller than originals without noticeable quality loss, dramatically improving performance. Framer automatically optimizes uploaded images, converting to efficient formats like WebP where supported.

A technique that defers loading off-screen content until users scroll near it, improving initial page performance. It is especially useful for image-heavy pages and long content feeds. Framer automatically lazy-loads many assets, including below-the-fold images.

A measure of how quickly page content loads and becomes interactive, influenced by file sizes, server response, and code efficiency. Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, making optimization both a UX and SEO concern. Framer's infrastructure and automatic optimizations help achieve fast page speeds.