Performance - The Cloudflare Blog

Cloudflare is deprecating Railgun

June 01, 2023 2:00PM

Cloudflare will deprecate Railgun on January 2024...

Sam Rhea

Developer Week Performance Update: Spotlight on R2

May 19, 2023 2:00PM

Developer Week Developers Network Performance Update Performance

For Developer Week 2023, we’re going to be looking at one of the newest Cloudflare developer offerings and how it compares to an alternative when retrieving assets from buckets: R2 versus Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)....

How Pingora keeps count

May 12, 2023 2:00PM

Performance Open Source Rust

In this blog post, we explain and open source the counting algorithm that powers Pingora. This will be the first of a series of blog posts that share both the Pingora libraries and the ideas behind them...

Yuchen Wu

Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework

March 02, 2023 3:05PM

Proxying Rust Performance Edge iCloud Private Relay

In this blog post, we are proud to introduce Oxy - our modern proxy framework, developed using the Rust programming language...

Ivan Nikulin

The state of HTTP in 2022

December 30, 2022 2:00PM

HTTP2 HTTP3 Privacy Performance

So what happened at all of those working group meetings, specification documents, and side events in 2022? What are implementers and deployers of the web’s protocol doing? And what’s coming next?...

Mark Nottingham

September 14, 2022 2:00PM

How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet

Today we are excited to talk about Pingora, a new HTTP proxy we’ve built in-house using Rust that serves over 1 trillion requests a day...

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Yuchen Wu
, Andrew Hauck

Rust , NGINX , Performance

November 23, 2021 1:58PM

Announcing Argo for Spectrum

Announcing general availability of Argo for Spectrum, a way to turbo-charge any TCP based application....

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Achiel van der Mandele

Argo Smart Routing , Spectrum , TCP , Performance

October 13, 2021 1:59PM

Coalescing Connections to Improve Network Privacy and Performance

Real world experiments for evaluating connection coalescing effects....

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Talha Paracha
, Suleman Ahmad

Research , Privacy , Performance , Browser Insights , Better Internet

October 05, 2021 1:58PM

Measuring Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost

Contemporary x86 processors implement some variants of Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost. We decided to learn about the implications of these two technologies....

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Sung Park

Hardware , AMD , EPYC , Partners , Performance

September 17, 2021 2:00PM

Benchmarking Edge Network Performance: Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, and Google

We recently ran a measurement experiment where we used Real User Measurement (RUM) data from the standard browser API to test the performance of Cloudflare and others in real-world conditions across the globe....

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John Graham-Cumming

Speed Week , Speed , Performance , Measurement , TTFB

July 27, 2021 1:59PM

Designing Edge Servers with Arm CPUs to Deliver 57% More Performance Per Watt

Using Arm, Cloudflare can now securely process over ten times as many Internet requests for every watt of power consumed, than we did for servers designed in 2013....

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Impact Week , Arm , Server , CPU , Performance

April 14, 2021 2:01PM

Improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers Unbound

Google’s new page experience measurements are going to be included in their search ranking in May 2021. Learn more about how to improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers....

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Developer Week , Developers , AMP , Cloudflare Workers , Workers Unbound

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....

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Edward Wang

Cache , Speed & Reliability , Performance

March 16, 2021 12:00PM

Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report

We explored almost 200 websites with the activated Automatic Platform Optimization feature in Chrome User Experience Report data. Automatic Platform Optimization consistently demonstrated better aggregate performance among sites we analyzed in TTFB, First Paint, FCP, and LCP metrics....

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Yevgen Safronov

Automatic Platform Optimization , WordPress , Speed & Reliability , Cache , Performance