How it works?
ImageKit.io plugs into your existing infrastructure with minimal code change, or no code change at all if you are using a custom domain name. Here is the complete flow of events when you request an image or static file through ImageKit.io.
Let's suppose you request
https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/example-image.jpg, here is what happens:- 1.DNS routes the request to the nearest CDN edge location that can best serve the request, typically the nearest POP in terms of latency.
- 2.If the file is found in the CDN cache, a response is returned to the user. In over 90% of the cases, the response is returned from the CDN cache. If not, the CDN does the following step.
- 3.The request is sent to the nearest ImageKit.io processing server, and the file is checked in internal caches. If the file is found in the cache, a response is returned. The CDN caches the new file and returns the response to the user. If the internal cache doesn't have the file then the following step is taken.
- 4.ImageKit.io fetches the original image from your origin (which could be your AWS S3 bucket, a load balancer or an Nginx web server, or any other type of origin), optimizes and transforms the image as per your account's default settings and the URL parameters, and a response is returned. The file also gets saved in ImageKit.io's internal cache & CDN cache, and the final response is returned to the user.
Request flow in ImageKit.io