Mobile Ad Networks as DDoS Vectors: A Case Study
September 25, 2015 4:01 PM
CloudFlare servers are constantly being targeted by DDoS'es. We see everything from attempted DNS reflection attacks to L7 HTTP floods involving large botnets....
iOS Developers — Migrate to iOS 9 with CloudFlare
June 11, 2015 10:31 AM
Thousands of developers use CloudFlare to accelerate and secure the backend of their mobile applications and websites. This week is WWDC, where thousands of Apple developers come to San Francisco to talk, learn and share best practices for developing software for Apple platforms. ...
Mirage 2.0: Solving the Mobile Browsing Speed Challenge
June 13, 2013 2:00 AM
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....
Optimizing Your Linux Stack for Maximum Mobile Web Performance
December 31, 2012 12:29 AM
We spend a lot of time at CloudFlare thinking about how to make the Internet fast on mobile devices. Currently there are over 1.2 billion active mobile users and that number is growing rapidly....
Why mobile performance is difficult
June 28, 2012 6:48 AM
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. ...
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June 06, 2012 2:08 AM
Introducing Mirage: Automatic Responsive Web Design via Intelligent Image Loading
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 cal...
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June 04, 2012 11:08 PM
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. ...
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