Combined CDN Request for Telerik Controls

Updated on Nov 3, 2026

The Telerik scripts CDN can be optimized to request a single file that contains all the scripts for all the controls from the UI for ASP.NET AJAX suite (Examples 1-2).

This resource combination will result in a single request for the Telerik controls scripts on each page that can be cached aggressively by the browser, as opposed to a number of different files that may not all be already cached. While this file will usually be larger than the sum of all individual files for an average page, if the end user downloads it once, they will get it from the browser cache for all pages in your application that have this setting enabled.

The combined request requires a working CDN. The Telerik CDN is discontinued starting with the November 11, 2026 release, so you need to configure a custom CDN provider with its own BaseUrl and BaseSecureUrl to use CombinedResource. When TelerikCdn is Enabled, but BaseUrl and BaseSecureUrl are not set or point to the discontinued Telerik CDN hosts, the resources are served from the Telerik.Web.UI assembly and CombinedResource is not applied. See the CDN Support Overview for details.

Example 1: Enable combined script resource for the Telerik controls for the entire application in the web.config.

XML

<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="Telerik.ScriptManager.TelerikCdn.CombinedScript" value="Enabled" />
    </appSettings>
</configuration>

You can see the rest of the settings you can set globally via appSettings keys in the web.config Settings Overview article.

Example 2: Enable combined script resource for the Telerik controls for a concrete page in the markup.

ASP.NET

<telerik:RadScriptManager ID="RadScriptManager1" runat="server">
	<CdnSettings TelerikCdn="Enabled" CombinedResource="Enabled" BaseUrl="http://my.favorite.cdn" BaseSecureUrl="https://my.favorite.cdn" />
</telerik:RadScriptManager>

See Also

• Telerik Scripts CDN Overview

• Telerik Styles CDN Overview

• web.config Settings Overview