February 06, 2019 4:00 PM
Does page speed affect revenue? It does, and to a large degree. Learn why Cloudflare is the most effective when it comes to boosting site speed and performance....
February 05, 2019 4:00 PM
Cloudflare seeks to help its end customers use whichever public and private clouds best suit their needs. Towards that goal, we have been working to make sure our solutions work well with various public cloud providers including Microsoft’s Azure platform....
January 25, 2019 3:33 PM
At Cloudflare, we aim to make the Internet faster and safer for everyone. One way we do this is through caching: we keep a copy of our customer content in our 165 data centers around the world. This brings content closer to users and reduces traffic back to origin servers....
December 24, 2018 4:00 PM
Fixing slow Time To First Byte by edge-caching HTML with Cloudflare Workers and automatically purging the cache when content changes....
December 21, 2018 4:00 PM
Over the past few months, we have been running a pilot with Facebook to test the feasibility of securing the connection between 1.1.1.1 and Facebook’s authoritative name servers. ...
December 13, 2018 1:00 PM
We’re excited to announce early access for Traffic Acceleration with Cloudflare Mobile SDK. Enabling Acceleration through the SDK reduces latency, increases throughput, and improves app user experiences....
December 12, 2018 1:00 PM
A year ago I wrote about a project that Cloudflare were funding at King's College London to help improve LuaJIT. Our twelve months is now up. How did we do? ...
December 04, 2018 1:00 PM
How quickly did this blog post load? Did you happen to notice? Most website visitors do notice that sort of thing, even if they don't realize it consciously. In fact, virtually all visitors have strong opinions about how quickly a website should load....
November 29, 2018 6:45 PM
With Cloudflare Workers, it is possible to send traffic logs to arbitrary locations. In this post we are going to discuss an example Worker implementation on how to achieve this. So if you are building or maintaining your own traffic logging/analytics environment, read on....
November 28, 2018 7:59 PM
Efficient packet dropping is a key part of Cloudflare’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigations. In this post, we introduce a new tool in our packet dropping arsenal: L4Drop....
November 22, 2018 7:58 AM
Code walkthrough on using Cloudflare workers to improve the performance of sites using Google Fonts. The improvements can be quite dramatic and the sample provides a real-world use case of doing streaming HTML modification in a Cloudflare Worker....
November 16, 2018 11:00 AM
You can now place applications that require SSH connections, like your source control repository, behind Cloudflare Access. We’re excited to release that same feature so that your team can also destroy your own VPN....
November 12, 2018 11:27 AM
It's been a while since we last wrote about Layer 3/4 DDoS attacks on this blog. This is a good news - we've been quietly handling the daily onslaught of DDoS attacks. Since our last write-up, a handful of interesting L3/4 attacks have happened. Let's review them....
November 11, 2018 1:00 PM
On April 1st, 2018, we announced 1.1.1.1, the fastest public DNS resolver in the world ???. Today, we are launching the 1.1.1.1 mobile app to make it incredibly easy to use 1.1.1.1 on your phone....
October 25, 2018 1:00 PM
We’re excited to announce the full integration of Cloudflare Spectrum with Load Balancing. Combining Spectrum with Load Balancing enables traffic management of TCP connections utilising the same battle tested Load Balancer our customers already use for billions of HTTP requests e...
October 22, 2018 12:27 PM
Cloudflare launches Peering Portal - Beta to allow network operators and hosting providers to explore transit savings, performance benefits and traffic Management opportunities for peering with Cloudflare or hosting a node...
October 17, 2018 12:00 PM
When considering website performance, the term TTFB - time to first byte - crops up regularly. Often we see measurements from cURL and Chrome, and this article will show what timings those tools can produce, including time to first byte......
October 12, 2018 12:00 PM
Getting the best end-user performance from HTTP/2 requires good support for resource prioritization. While most web servers support HTTP/2 prioritization, getting it to work well all the way to the browser requires a fair bit of coordination across the networking stack....
October 10, 2018 3:17 PM
This is about our latest generation G9 server. From a G4 server comprising of 12 Intel Sandybridge CPU cores, our G9 server has 192 Intel Skylake CPU cores ready to handle today’s load across Cloudflare’s network....
