MORE POSTS
April 14, 2020 11:00 AM
Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users....
August 13, 2019 5:00 PM
On the recent HTTP/2 DoS attacks
Today, multiple Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities were disclosed for a number of HTTP/2 server implementations. Cloudflare uses NGINX for HTTP/2. Customers using Cloudflare are already protected against these attacks....
May 22, 2019 5:14 PM
NGINX structural enhancements for HTTP/2 performance
My team: the Cloudflare PROTOCOLS team is responsible for termination of HTTP traffic at the edge of the Cloudflare network. We deal with features related to: TCP, QUIC, TLS and Secure Certificate management, HTTP/1 and HTTP/2....
May 20, 2019 1:00 PM
One more thing... new Speed Page
With the Speed Page redesign, we are emphasizing the performance benefits of using Cloudflare and the additional improvements possible from our features....
May 14, 2019 1:00 PM
Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web
Advancing the state of the art of HTTP/2 to deliver a faster user experience. See why it matters and how much of a difference it can make....
November 22, 2018 7:58 AM
Fast Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers
Code walkthrough on using Cloudflare workers to improve the performance of sites using Google Fonts. The improvements can be quite dramatic and the sample provides a real-world use case of doing streaming HTML modification in a Cloudflare Worker....
October 12, 2018 12:00 PM
Optimizing HTTP/2 prioritization with BBR and tcp_notsent_lowat
Getting the best end-user performance from HTTP/2 requires good support for resource prioritization. While most web servers support HTTP/2 prioritization, getting it to work well all the way to the browser requires a fair bit of coordination across the networking stack....
July 26, 2018 3:04 PM
The Road to QUIC
QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet transport protocol, that provides a number of improvements designed to accelerate HTTP traffic as well as make it more secure, with the intended goal of eventually replacing TCP and TLS on the web....
January 18, 2018 3:58 PM
Deprecating SPDY
Participating in the Internet democracy occasionally means that technologies that were once popular lose their utility as newer technologies emerge. SPDY is one such technology. As a result, we're announcing our intention to deprecate the use of SPDY for connections made to Clou...
July 06, 2017 1:35 PM
How to make your site HTTPS-only
The Internet is getting more secure every day as people enable HTTPS, the secure version of HTTP, on their sites and services....
December 26, 2016 2:59 PM
So you want to expose Go on the Internet
Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That's not necessary anymore!...
November 28, 2016 2:10 PM
HPACK: the silent killer (feature) of HTTP/2
If you have experienced HTTP/2 for yourself, you are probably aware of the visible performance gains possible with HTTP/2 due to features like stream multiplexing, explicit stream dependencies, and Server Push.
...
September 24, 2016 3:46 PM
How we brought HTTPS Everywhere to the cloud (part 1)
CloudFlare's mission is to make HTTPS accessible for all our customers. It provides security for their websites, improved ranking on search engines, better performance with HTTP/2, and access to browser features such as geolocation that are being deprecated for plaintext HTTP....
September 21, 2016 3:51 PM
Opportunistic Encryption: Bringing HTTP/2 to the unencrypted web
Encrypting the web is not an easy task. Various complexities prevent websites from migrating from HTTP to HTTPS, including mixed content, which can prevent sites from functioning with HTTPS. ...
August 16, 2016 12:17 PM
Accelerating Node.js applications with HTTP/2 Server Push
In April, we announced support for HTTP/2 Server Push via the HTTP Link header. My coworker John has demonstrated how easy it is to add Server Push to an example PHP application. We wanted to make it easy to improve the performance of contemporary websites built with Node.js. ...