(Image credit: markyharky) This is the first in a series of posts looking at what makes the web slow and what to do about it. Suppose you needed to transfer 1TB of data (perhaps your home movie collection) from San Francisco to London. What would be the fastest route? Put
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 when a page loads. On the average web page, more than 50% of the data is made up of images.
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 of having saved our users 2 petabytes of bandwidth. That's a staggering amount of data. According to Wolfram Alpha, it's the equivalent
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 half a petabyte of data they would have otherwise had to transfer from their servers. That's 500 terabytes, 500 million megabytes, or approximately the
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 are collected, PanelPicker launches a voting interface that allows the world to pick what sessions they'd like to see at
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 teenage pop music phenomenon, he is also one of the most influential celebrities when it comes to social media. He has 11.2 million followers on his Twitter acount, and his Facebook
