Cloaking
Cloaking is a deceptive SEO technique where a website shows different content or URLs to search engine crawlers (like Googlebot) than it does to human users. This is a violation of Google's guidelines and can result in severe ranking penalties. Speed Kit is designed to be fully compatible with crawlers and avoids any risk of cloaking because the crawler always bypasses Speed Kit and interacts directly with the Origin Server, seeing the same final content as a real user.
Related web performance terms
- CDN (Content Delivery Network)
A CDN, or Content Delivery Network, is a globally distributed network of servers designed to deliver web content to users quickly and efficiently.
- CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)
CORS is a browser security feature that uses HTTP headers to manage whether a web page from one domain is allowed to fetch resources from another domain.
- CPU time
CPU time is the amount of time the Central Processing Unit (CPU) of a user's device spends processing the scripts and rendering a webpage.
- Cache
A cache is a high-speed, temporary storage layer designed to store copies of website files (like HTML, images, and scripts) closer to the user.