Limelight CDN vs Skypack

Overview

Limelight CDN

Stacks15

Followers12

Votes18

Skypack

Stacks2

Followers13

Votes0

Limelight CDN vs Skypack: What are the differences?

What is Limelight CDN? Fast, available and secure delivery of digital content to any device, anywhere. Whether it’s your website, mobile applications, videos, music, software, games, or APIs, your content needs to reach customers quickly, reliably, and securely. It provides the capacity, coverage, and performance to cost-effectively deliver a better experience for you and your customers.

What is Skypack? A new kind of JavaScript delivery network. It is a first-of-its-kind JavaScript Package Delivery Network (PDN) Third-party package dependencies can make up 90% of the JavaScript code that we serve to our users. It is optimized to serve those dependencies as quickly as possible, speeding up your site and letting you focus on deploying & managing the code that you actually wrote yourself..

Limelight CDN and Skypack belong to "Content Delivery Network" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Limelight CDN are:

Management & Reporting
Intelligent High-Speed Purging
Web Acceleration

On the other hand, Skypack provides the following key features:

One interface for everything on npm. All you need is the package name
Supported by all modern browsers. Leverage modern ESM to import any npm package directly in your browser
Ship faster code when possible. Skypack only polyfills & transpiles for the old browsers that need it

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Detailed Comparison

Limelight CDN	Skypack
Whether it’s your website, mobile applications, videos, music, software, games, or APIs, your content needs to reach customers quickly, reliably, and securely. It provides the capacity, coverage, and performance to cost-effectively deliver a better experience for you and your customers.	It is a first-of-its-kind JavaScript Package Delivery Network (PDN). Third-party package dependencies can make up 90% of the JavaScript code that we serve to our users. It is optimized to serve those dependencies as quickly as possible, speeding up your site and letting you focus on deploying & managing the code that you actually wrote yourself.
Management & Reporting;Intelligent High-Speed Purging;Web Acceleration	One interface for everything on npm. All you need is the package name; Supported by all modern browsers. Leverage modern ESM to import any npm package directly in your browser; Ship faster code when possible. Skypack only polyfills & transpiles for the old browsers that need it; Ship faster code when possible. Skypack only polyfills & transpiles for the old browsers that need it; Default-on caching. Packages load once and cache forever, no matter how often your site changes
Statistics
Stacks 15	Stacks 2
Followers 12	Followers 13
Votes 18	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Live Video 1 Sub second latency streaming 1 Free Trial of Services 1 Instant Purging 1 Global Network	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	JavaScript Node.js Deno

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Amazon CloudFront

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KeyCDN

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Fastly

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MaxCDN

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Moovweb XDN

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