October 18, 2011 12:10AM
Robust, Free DNS FTW
Free
DNS
Speed & Reliability
Most people don't think DNS is very sexy, but it's critically important to the functioning of the Internet. At its core, the purpose of DNS is to turn a domain that humans can read (example.com) into an IP address that computers can read (192.0.43.10)....
October 03, 2011 3:30AM
Combining Javascript & CSS, a Better Way
JavaScript
Rocket Loader
CSS
Speed & Reliability
Product News
Speed
The conventional wisdom in web performance circles is that you want to combine multiple javascript and CSS files. The reason for this is that there is significant overhead every time you setup a new HTTP request. More requests, more wasted overhead....
August 18, 2011 6:46PM
SXSW Panel Picker: Powered by CloudFlare
SXSW
Speed
Austin
Always Online
Bandwidth
Panel Picker
Speed & Reliability
Each year, the SXSW Music, Film and Interactive Conferences (sxsw.com) solicit session ideas from the community for the upcoming event using Panel Picker. After submissions are collected, PanelPicker launches a voting interface that allows the world to pick what sessions they'd like to see at SXSW....
July 13, 2011 10:40PM
CloudFlare's Free CDN and You
Speed & Reliability
Cache
CloudFlare gets a lot of questions about caching and our free CDN (content delivery network), so I thought I would put together a really quick guide about what CloudFlare caches and more....
June 19, 2011 12:35AM
An All New (and Improved) AutoMinify
Speed & Reliability
AutoMinify
JavaScript
We turned on AutoMinify as a beta feature a while ago, but we weren't particularly happy with it. Originally, we did it the same way everyone else does: we'd request the resource from the origin, serve it unminified on the first load, cache it, and then......
June 14, 2011 4:01AM
App a Day #10 - Zoompf Web Performance Optimizer
The Zoompf Web Performance Optimizer (WPO) is a cloud-based front-end performance scanner which analyzes your website for over 380 performance issues which are slowing it down....