Today we’re excited to announce the official GA of Rocket Loader, our JavaScript optimisation feature that will prioritise getting your content in front of your visitors faster than ever before with improved Mobile device support.
How we made our page-load optimisations even faster
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.
WSJ: CloudFlare Named Most Innovative Internet & Networking Company, Second Year in a Row
We just got word from the Wall Street Journal that CloudFlare was named the Most Innovative Internet & Networking Company of 2012. This is the second year in a row that CloudFlare has won this award. Given the pace of development of new technologies on the Internet, that is high
Why mobile performance is difficult
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 SPDY
In 2009, Google began work on a new network protocol to make web pages faster. Dubbed SPDY (pronounced "speedy"), the protocol is designed to solve many of the bottlenecks that slow HTTP down. Beginning today, we're rolling out a beta of SPDY to CloudFlare customers.