This is an additional set of services that can be used in the cloud version of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to extend its functionalities. Edge Delivery leverages Adobe’s infrastructure and the flexibility of AEM, allowing authors to create landing pages quickly while ensuring efficient and fast display for end users.
You will learn how to easily create quick pages using Adobe Edge Delivery Services from the article.
Edge Delivery enables the creation of ultra-fast landing pages
Edge Delivery aims to create pages optimized for fast loading, which is crucial for achieving high search engine rankings. Page load speed is a key factor for search engine algorithms and positive user experiences. Many corporate websites suffer from delays due to excessive loading of libraries and other resources, which negatively impacts their ranking and visitors’ perceptions.
Leveraging its advanced network infrastructure, Adobe has implemented Edge Delivery to address these issues and ensure fast page display. Thanks to Edge Delivery, corporate sites can be even quicker than lighter websites built with competing technologies.
Acceleration in Edge Delivery Services
Here’s what Edge Delivery Services does to speed up page loading:
- The idea behind creating pages for Edge Delivery is to start with a very high-speed score, as shown by tools like Google Lighthouse, and maintain that score throughout the development process. This avoids situations where a page becomes slow at the final stage of development, requiring significant resources for optimization work. This approach allows for more efficient resource use and guarantees a high level of user satisfaction.
- Edge Delivery takes advantage of a global CDN (Content Delivery Network) of edge servers in various locations. When a user visits a landing page, the content is delivered from the closest edge server, significantly reducing data transfer times and minimizing latency.
- Edge Delivery supports the HTTP/2 protocol, which allows multiple resources to be transmitted simultaneously over a single connection, significantly shortening page load times. HTTPS ensures secure connections and also speeds up web page display.
- Pages created according to best practices for Edge Delivery should use only clean JavaScript and CSS, which helps limit the number of resources the browser needs to download to render the page. This makes the loading process faster and more efficient.
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Edge Delivery also speeds up content creation
Editing and managing pages have always been critical for Adobe. This is why AEM has become popular for corporations as a content management system. Edge Delivery also enables easy editing and creation of new pages, allowing companies to quickly create and update content in response to changing needs, increasing their flexibility and efficiency.
Creating new pages is limited to creating files and folders in Google Drive, eliminating the need for the author to have technical knowledge. The author only needs to know how to use Google Drive and Google Docs, which resemble Microsoft Word in appearance and functionality. This is Document–Based Authoring, requiring no traditional backend.
With this approach, the content creation process is simple and intuitive. Using Google Drive for page creation enables simultaneous work by authors and developers. The author does not have to wait for a page element to be completed but can work immediately in Google Docs. Meanwhile, front-end developers can work on the components and their appearance. Once finished, the entire project can be published immediately on the production site.
Edge Delivery also accelerates AEM pages
An author can add a page using the Universal Editor on the author instance in AEM and then publish it. The page can be delivered to Edge Delivery from the public instance, optimizing its performance.
My opinion on Edge Delivery
The Edge Delivery concept is exciting from the perspective of front-end developers and content authors. However, it requires getting used to the serverless approach and the absence of local data storage. Understanding how data is processed within Adobe’s ecosystem is also crucial.
On the other hand, the ability to quickly launch an application without creating a backend is extremely attractive. Components can be built, styles can be defined, and content can be entered directly into Google Docs. The collaboration of just one front-end developer and content author is sufficient to create a full landing page.
The tools for working with Edge Delivery are intuitive. The project is based on a standard npm environment, which requires basic knowledge, but getting started is simple.
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