CloudFlare runs one of the largest networks of DNS servers in the world. Over the last few months, we've invested in making our DNS as fast and responsive as possible. We were happy to see these efforts pay off in third-party DNS test results. The good folks at
OCSP Stapling: How CloudFlare Just Made SSL 30% Faster
This week CloudFlare is announcing several things we're doing to significantly improve the performance of SSL. Too few sites are secured with SSL. One of the reasons sites don't implement SSL is that it can slow down web performance. One of the less frequently discussed, but
Mobile Web Performance: Optimizing TCP Congestion Control Algorithms
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the primary protocols of the Internet. When you request a web page, the server responds with the data that makes up that page. The data is subdivided into discrete packets of data as they are sent across the Internet from the server back
Introducing Mirage: Automatic Responsive Web Design via Intelligent Image Loading
Yesterday, we announced Polish, which helps to automatically optimize the images on your site to decrease their size and thereby 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
App a Day #10 - Zoompf Web Performance Optimizer
Analyze More Than 380 Performance Issues At CloudFlare, we spend a lot of time working on website performance, and how to make your websites faster. Today's CloudFlare App is from a team that thinks about performance enough to even impress us: Zoompf. The Zoompf Web Performance Optimizer (WPO)
Google Analytics: Now with Site Speed
Last week Google Analytics announced that they would begin integrating Site Speed tracking. This is an awesome new way for site administrators to see how well their pages are performing. CloudFlare has always been a fan of Google Analytics. Since our public launch we've offered web administrators a
