The following is a technical post written by Ian Applegate (@AppealingTea), a member of our Systems Engineering team, on how to optimize the Linux TCP stack for mobile connections. The article was originally published as part of the 2012 Web Performance Calendar. At CloudFlare, we spend a significant amount of ...

Mobile web browsing is very different, at the network level, to browsing on a desktop machine connected to the Internet. Yet both use the very same protocols, and although TCP was designed to perform well on the fixed-line Internet, it doesn't perform as well on mobile networks. This post ...

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

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the primary protocols of the Internet. When you request a web page, the server responds with the ...

We've been making a lot of improvements deep within CloudFlare that you'll start to see the benefits of over the coming weeks. As the changes graduate from our tests to full production, we'll ...