How we made our page-load optimisations even faster
February 02, 2018 4:41PM
We improved the Lighthouse and time-to-first-meaningful-paint scores of two of our web optimisation products: Mirage and Rocket Loader! Combined, these products speed up around 1.2 billion web-pages a week....
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Prepare Your Site for Traffic Spikes this Holiday Season
November 17, 2014 7:46PM
Speed & Reliability
Holidays
eCommerce
Rocket Loader
Mirage
The holiday season is approaching, and everyone is thinking about gifts for their friends and family. As people increasingly shop online, this means huge spikes in traffic for web sites---especially ecommerce sites....
Mirage 2.0: Solving the Mobile Browsing Speed Challenge
June 13, 2013 3:00AM
Mirage
Mobile
Speed
Speed & Reliability
Almost exactly a year ago, CloudFlare announced a feature called Mirage. Mirage was designed to make the loading of images faster in two primary ways....
Why mobile performance is difficult
June 28, 2012 7:48AM
Mobile
TCP
Speed & Reliability
Mirage
Polish
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....
Introducing Mirage: Automatic Responsive Web Design via Intelligent Image Loading
June 06, 2012 3:08AM
Mirage
Mobile
Speed & Reliability
Polish
Product News
Yesterday, we announced Polish, which helps to automatically optimize the images on your site and increase performance. Today we're releasing something more ambitious: a system to automatically manage the loading of images in order to maximize your site's performance which we call Mirage....