Introducing Polish: Automatic Image Optimization

Today, the average web page has more than 85 objects (images, Javascript, CSS, etc.) that make up more than 750 KB of data. All that data needs to be downloaded ...
2 Petabytes of Bandwidth (and Real Money) Saved

Sometime on Sunday, November 13, 2011 (which was a pretty awesome day on its own, quite aside from this news) we crossed the point ...
We Saved Users Half a Petabyte Last Month!

I was just looking over our daily stats report and noticed something incredible. In the last 30 days, CloudFlare saved our users more than ...
SXSW Panel Picker: Powered by CloudFlare

Each year, the SXSW Music, Film and Interactive Conferences (sxsw.com) solicit session ideas from the community for the upcoming event using PanelPicker (panelpicker.sxsw.com). After submissions ...
Is Your Site Able To Handle A 'Bieber Effect' Moment?
For
better or worse, most of you have probably heard of Justin
Bieber
by now.
Besides being a ...
The Folly of Charging by Bandwidth

Back in 1992, I was part of a small team of students at Trinity College that helped build what turned out to be one of the first, if ...
