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The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web browsing

Published on June 21, 2012 08:29AM by John Graham-Cumming.

The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web
browsing

(Image credit: markyharky)

This is the first in a series of posts looking at what makes ...

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View Comments | Tagged with bandwidth, caching, sneakernet, tcp, webperformance

Introducing Polish: Automatic Image Optimization

Published on June 05, 2012 01:08AM by Matthew Prince.

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 ...

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View Comments | Tagged with bandwidth, imageoptimization, lossless, lossy, mobile, polish

2 Petabytes of Bandwidth (and Real Money) Saved

Published on November 14, 2011 06:44AM by Matthew Prince.

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 ...

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View Comments | Tagged with bandwidth, free, milestone, petabyte

We Saved Users Half a Petabyte Last Month!

Published on September 25, 2011 02:45AM by Matthew Prince.

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 ...

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View Comments | Tagged with bandwidth, cache, data, petabyte, savings

SXSW Panel Picker: Powered by CloudFlare

Published on August 18, 2011 07:46PM by Matthew Prince.

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 ...

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View Comments | Tagged with alwaysonline, austin, bandwidth, load, panelpicker, speed, sxsw, webperformance

Is Your Site Able To Handle A 'Bieber Effect' Moment?

Published on July 28, 2011 02:13AM by David Zakur.

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 ...

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View Comments | Tagged with bandwidth, bieber, load, trafficspike, twitter

The Folly of Charging by Bandwidth

Published on July 15, 2011 12:27AM by Matthew Prince.

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 ...

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View Comments | Tagged with bandwidth, billing, free, nonickleanddiming, predictable, traffic

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