CloudFlare Zaraz - The Solution for speeding up your website

Speed Up Your Web Pages With Cloudflare Zaraz

You are in a race to get your content in front of your target audience as quickly as possible. You are competing in this race with all the millions of other web pages on the Internet, and your users WILL go somewhere else if the load times are unreasonable. Cloudflare Zaraz can give you the boost you need. 

This is a modern tag management service for modern times. It can process all the third-party integrations in the form of tags through its serverless cloud architecture (called Cloudflare Workers) instead of on the user’s browser. 

It’s not simply an alternative to Google tag manager. 

It’s one step above. 

These third-party tools include things that all online businesses should employ if they wish to make it far, such as Facebook Pixel and its alternatives, as well as indispensable automation tools.

Cloudflare Zaraz can host these and many more for you without making a dent in the website’s performance! 

Let’s take a closer look at how this innovative technology came to be and how it can improve page speed & SEO ranking and help you scale your business! 

The Problem with Tags & Third-Party Bloat

Tags are essentially scripts – bits of JavaScript code that get placed on web pages and collect information. They are how third-party tools like the Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics collect information from your website. 

Years ago, you had to go and manually install the snippet of JavaScript code on every single page. 

This required the skills of a developer. It wasn’t a task that people from other departments could handle.

In some cases, it was a complex operation since they would have to change a tag across multiple pages, which was very time-consuming. This was a process that was prone to human error. When a person went and changed a bit of code, it was possible that they could mess something else up and break the site. 

Google tag manager succeeded in centralizing tag activity. We can consider the manager as a bucket that gets installed once on a website, and we can remotely add or edit things in that bucket. We can also set special conditions and firing rules, allowing for greater control. 

Tag managers took away the need to involve developers in this process. In doing so, they gave more power to business owners while freeing up manpower and time.  

However, after years of dominance in the field, people are starting to search for alternatives to Google Tag Manager. 

Nowadays, there are so many tags that need to be installed that the tag manager code that loads the bucket has to check a whole list of conditions and fire a bunch of scripts, which essentially creates a large amount of JavaScript files that need to load into the user’s browser to execute and then run. This causes the page to slow down. 

The name of the game is speed. Google seems to agree with us. Speed is a huge factor (sometimes the deciding factor) in the equation that determines your ranking on SERPs (Search Engine Results Page). 

Cloudflare Zaraz is by far the best choice among all the Google tag manager alternatives out there.

The Cloudflare Zaraz Solution 

Cloudflare has been making big moves for a while now, putting out great features to improve productivity and quality of life. Their acquisition of Zaraz is looking to keep the ball rolling.

If you’re relying on third-party solutions for your website, Zaraz can significantly boost your website’s speed by not running the tag code in the browser.

It moves a lot of the heavy lifting (code processing & condition checking) to the server-side. It uses on-demand servers all over the globe to execute the code close to the user and thus very quickly. It then returns the right amount of stripped-down code that is necessary to run on the page. 

This results in a substantial reduction in weight that has to load on the page on the client-side. 

This way, it gets pre-processed much faster on servers and then delivered to the browser. 

Google tag manager requires prior technical knowledge to make the most of it. Zaraz is more streamlined and simplified so that anyone can use it, from the marketing to the sales department. 

See What Cloudflare Zaraz Could Do For You 

You can go straight to the Zaraz website and analyze your website’s current performance. Just enter your URL, wait a couple of minutes, and you will be given two scores: one for your speed right now and one that you could achieve by implementing Cloudflare Zaraz. 

Cloudflare Zaraz Speed Score Improvement

This isn’t some vague promise of “Make things faster,” either. They give you a detailed plan of attack and go point by point over the different aspects that they can improve upon. These include Web Core Vitals like Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and First Input Delay (FID). Google has stated that it uses these metrics in its SERP ranking algorithm.

Cloudflare Zaraz Speed Score Metrics Breakdown

This breakdown clearly shows that it can drastically shave down these times, thus giving you a better performance in your SEO efforts.  

Final Words On Cloudflare Zaraz 

We use Google Lighthouse to test web page optimization on desktop and mobile for ourselves and our clients. We can optimize all the components and underlying code of a page to get a great speed score. But even when we get to 95-99%, Google tag manager is the one thing keeping us from reaching a perfect score since we do not have control over its scripts.

This is why we believe Cloudflare Zaraz is a step in the right direction for your business!

The Zaraz team offers the beta version for free on their website, so don’t wait, try it out now and see for yourself how much you stand to gain from embracing this new technology! 

If you need any help setting up Zaraz or any other digital tool, don’t hesitate to contact us right here. We will schedule a call right away to talk about all the ways we can leverage technology to scale your business. Let’s discuss your vision and develop an actionable plan to make it a reality. 

We can’t wait to hear all about your company and get to work on improving your business, so we hope to hear from you soon!

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Camilla | Marketing Specialist

Camilla works hard to ensure that the Marketing strategies and executions are on point and data-driven, not only for our clients but internally at Profitable Media as well. She’s been coming up with innovative ways to reach and engage audiences for over 8 years.

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Camilla B.
Digital Marketing Specialist

Camilla works hard to ensure that the Marketing strategies and executions are on point and data-driven, not only for our clients but internally at Profitable Media as well. She’s been coming up with innovative ways to reach and engage audiences for over 8 years.

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Vlad P. Marketing Specialist at Profitable Media, LLC

Vlad Popirda

MARKETING SPECIALIST

If you’ve been swayed, convinced, or otherwise persuaded by the writing on our page or in some of our emails, chances are Vlad was the man behind it.

Be it Social Media Management, Marketing Strategy, PPC Ads, or Copywriting, you can rely on him to get the job done.

With a Bachelor’s in Marketing and a Master’s in Advertising, his life’s work is to leave this world better than he found it, and he aims to achieve that by putting his talents in the service of the right people and helping businesses make a difference in the world.

Outside of working hours, you may find him singing Britney Spears songs at karaoke nights, or exercising his creativity in varied ways, such as playing chess, designing board games, playing guitar, or playing Dungeons & Dragons with his mates.

Alisa Villanueva Account Manager at Profitable Media, LLC

Alisa Villanueva

ACCOUNT MANAGER

Alisa is the glue that brings all the parts of our operation together. The one always keeping an eye on the bigger picture. The person that makes sure that it all works smoothly and on schedule, giving everything an artistic spin and flourish with her keen eye for design.

With her background in sales, customer service and art, it’s no wonder her strength is in communicating with people, be they our customers or us, her team.

While juggling her different tasks (Project Management, Web Design, Quality Control, Customer Service), one thing never changes: she will use her artistic sense to make a project unique and she will hear out the person she is working with, understanding their needs and wishes while integrating and tying them all together to create an outstanding final product.

When she’s not tuned in to her work, you’ll find Alisa taking ordinary things and making them beautiful. In her artistic endeavors she explores many different mediums of expression, like painting, ceramics, dance, and cooking. Among these, her dancing stands out, as she is part of a salsa dance performance team, doing gigs both locally and nationally.

Her dream is to travel and explore different cultures, which she is always doing from home by cooking and trying out various cuisines from around the world.
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Alisa is the one that makes things work smoothly and on schedule, giving everything she does an artistic spin and flourish with her keen eye for design.

With her background in sales, customer service and art, it’s no wonder her strength is in communicating with people, be they our customers or us, her team.

Zach Warshawsky Chief Operations Officer at Profitable Media, LLC

Zach Warshawsky

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Zach manages the operational side of our business and coordinates all the work done by our team. He designs technical architecture and always keeps an eye towards the future, making sure his solutions are scalable. He applies his skills in all sorts of fields, such as Project and Team Management, Sales Funnels, Web Technology, Split Testing, Automation and CRM.

If there’s one trait he shares with Henry, it’s passionate problem-solving. Although he has been working for over 25 years in Sales, Marketing, Management, Team Building and Customer Service, perhaps his relevant business credentials start even earlier. At 15, he started a business selling and installing car stereo systems before he even had a driver’s license. Armed with a reseller’s permit and a passion for business, he started down the path of entrepreneurship and hasn’t looked back since.

With four amazing children and a wonderful wife in his life, his goal is set: provide the best possible life for them that he can. To that end, he works hard on helping clients scale their businesses through the use of cutting edge digital marketing tools.

His weapon of choice on this quest is not a coincidence, for his knowledge of technology is certainly top-notch. This can sometimes be a blessing and a curse however, when the Apple Genius Bar can’t solve a friend’s problem, it’s Zach’s phone that gets lit up.

To unwind, he spends time with his children, goes on weekly dates with his wife and is passionate about crafting culinary art… he unwinds and loves creating amazing home-cooked meals for his friends and family!

Henry Hamamjy Chief Executive Officer at Profitable Media, LLC

Henry Hamamjy

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

One of the two men that started it all, Henry has a knack for judging character and managing the internal structure of our team. The go-to guy for when business owners hit a roadblock, he is well known for offering unique, scalable solutions to any issue that presents itself. 

With a background in Sales, Marketing, Management, People Development and Leadership, he puts it all to good use in the service of his clients and fellow team members, helping them better themselves. 

He’s a born problem-solver, breaking any seemingly impossible task into achievable actionable items.  He has successfully helped dozens of businesses expand to the 7-8 figure level, by designing and implementing extensible, supportive and responsive infrastructure that his clients could then leverage to their fullest advantage. 

At work, he loves helping our customers make their dreams a reality, taking businesses to the next step of success, guiding them all the while. Outside of work, he enjoys a good meal with friends and a nice Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. He also likes travelling with his family and exploring different cultures and finding out more about our world. Having dreamt of becoming a soccer player when he grew up, he has since traded that sport for another, namely golf, which he partakes in whenever he gets the chance.

Little known fact, he won the Atomic Spicy Food Competition when most of the people quit after just a couple of bites. Scientists have yet to come up with an explanation.