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Ask Me Anything About HTTP/2

Published on April 27th, 2016 7:10PM by John Roberts.

We're big fans of HTTP/2 at CloudFlare. Our customers make up the majority of HTTP/2 enabled domains today. HTTP/2 is a key part of the modern web, and its growth and adoption is changing how websites and applications are built. On Thursday April 28, 2016, our friends

CloudFlare’s Impact On The HTTP/2 “Universe”

Published on February 3rd, 2016 5:16PM by Christian Elsen.

CloudFlare released HTTP/2 support for all customers on December 3rd, 2015. Now, two months later, it's time to take a look at the impact of this release on the HTTP/2 "universe" and also at what has changed from a HTTP/2 vs. SPDY vs. HTTP 1.1 traffic

HTTP/2 Demo: Under the Hood

Published on December 11th, 2015 7:44PM by Marc Bodmer.

At first glance, the potential performance improvements of HTTP/1.1 versus HTTP/2 on our demo page may seem a bit hard to believe. So, we put together a technical explanation of how this demo actually works. We’d also like to credit the Gophertiles demo, which served as

HTTP/2 For Web Developers

Published on December 10th, 2015 12:10PM by Ryan Hodson.

HTTP/2 changes the way web developers optimize their websites. In HTTP/1.1, it’s become common practice to eek out an extra 5% of page load speed by hacking away at your TCP connections and HTTP requests with techniques like spriting, inlining, domain sharding, and concatenation. Life’s

HTTP/2 is here! Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet

Published on December 3rd, 2015 1:59PM by Christian Elsen.

Why choose, if you can have both? Today CloudFlare is introducing HTTP/2 support for all customers using SSL/TLS connections, while still supporting SPDY. There is no need to make a decision between SPDY or HTTP/2. Both are automatically there for you and your customers. Enabling HTTP/2

The little extra that comes with Universal SSL

Published on October 6th, 2014 9:35PM by John Graham-Cumming.

CC BY 2.0 by JD Hancock Last Monday we announced our SSL for Free plan users called Universal SSL. Universal SSL means that any site running on CloudFlare gets a free SSL certificate, and is automatically secured over HTTPS. Using SSL for a web site helps make the site

Introducing Universal SSL

Published on September 29th, 2014 9:56AM by Matthew Prince.

The team at CloudFlare is excited to announce the release of Universal SSL™. Beginning today, we will support SSL connections to every CloudFlare customer, including the 2 million sites that have signed up for the free version of our service. This morning we began rolling out the Universal SSL across

Staying up to date with the latest protocols: SPDY/3.1

Published on February 17th, 2014 4:00PM by John Graham-Cumming.

Back in June 2012 CloudFlare started a beta rollout of Google's then new SPDY protocol and we took a detailed look at how SPDY makes web sites faster. Since then we've watched carefully as SPDY has evolved through different versions and have been keeping an eye