Reduce latency and increase cache hits with Regional Tiered Cache
June 01, 2023 2:00PM
Regional Tiered Cache provides an additional layer of caching for Enterprise customers who have a global traffic footprint and want to serve content faster by avoiding network latency when there is a cache miss in a lower-tier, resulting in an upper-tier fetch in a data center located far away...
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Introducing Cache Rules: precision caching at your fingertips
September 27, 2022 2:00PM
Birthday Week
Cache
CDN
Product News
Cache Rules
We have spent the last ten years learning how customers use Page Rules to customize their cached content, and it’s clear the time is ripe for evolving rules-based caching on Cloudflare...
Crawler Hints supports Microsoft’s IndexNow in helping users find new content
August 12, 2022 5:30PM
Crawler Hints
Search Engine
Bots
Cache
Product News
Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to help give crawlers hints about when they should recrawl, if new content has been added, or if content on a site has recently changed...
Introducing Smart Edge Revalidation
July 28, 2021 1:59PM
Impact Week
Cache
Revalidation
Cache-Control
Product News
When both Last-Modified and Etag headers are absent from the origin response, Smart Edge Revalidation will use the time the object was cached on Cloudflare as the Last-Modified header value. When Cloudflare receives a revalidation request, our edge can respond using the generated header....
CDN-Cache-Control: Precision Control for your CDN(s)
May 21, 2021 12:00PM
CDN
Cache
Cache-Control
Product News
Headers
Today we are thrilled to announce our support of a new set of HTTP response headers that provide surgical control over our CDN’s caching decisions. CDN-Cache-Control allows customers to directly control how our CDN behaves without affecting the behavior of downstream or upstream caches....
March 19, 2021 12:00PM
Third Time’s the Cache, No More
Up until now, we wouldn’t cache requests with query strings until we saw them three times. We trace that behavior back to 2010, examine why we might have needed it, and show ourselves why we don’t need it anymore....