Wrapping up another Birthday Week celebration
2024-09-30
Recapping all the big announcements made during 2024’s Birthday Week....
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Race ahead with Cloudflare Pages build caching
2023-09-28
Unleash the fast & furious in your builds with Cloudflare Pages' build caching. Reduce build times by caching previously computed project components. Now in Beta for select frameworks and package managers....
Cloudflare Fonts: enhancing website font privacy and speed
2023-09-25
Introducing Cloudflare Fonts. Enhance privacy and performance for websites using Google Fonts by loading fonts from their own origin. Improve user privacy, enhance site performance, and simplify the process. No need for code changes. Simply enable Cloudflare Fonts in your dashboard...
How we scaled and protected Eurovision 2023 voting with Pages and Turnstile
2023-06-23
More than 162 million fans tuned in to the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, the first year that non-participating countries could also vote. Cloudflare helped scale and protect the voting application based.io, built by once.net using our rapid DNS infrastructure, CDN, Cloudflare Pages and Turnstile...
Introducing the Cloudflare Radar Internet Quality Page
2023-06-23
The new Internet Quality page on Cloudflare Radar provides both country and network (autonomous system) level insight into Internet connection performance (bandwidth) and quality (latency, jitter) over time based on benchmark test data as well as speed.cloudflare.com test results...
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June 22, 2023 1:00 PM
Benchmarking dashboard performance
The Cloudflare dashboard is a single page application that houses all of the UI for our wide portfolio of existing products, as well as the new features we're releasing every day...
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June 21, 2023 1:01 PM
Spotlight on Zero Trust: we're fastest and here's the proof
Cloudflare is the fastest Secure Web Gateway in 42% of testing scenarios, the most of any provider. Cloudflare is 46% faster than Zscaler, 56% faster than Netskope, and 10% faster than Palo Alto for ZTNA, and 64% faster than Zscaler for RBI scenarios...
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June 20, 2023 1:01 PM
Faster website, more customers: Cloudflare Observatory can help your business grow
Today, we are thrilled to unveil the Cloudflare Observatory, our new and enhanced Speed Tab. Cloudflare customers now have access to a suite of powerful tools that simplify performance monitoring and offer enhanced product recommendations...
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June 20, 2023 1:00 PM
INP. Get ready for the new Core Web Vital
On May 10, 2023, Google announced that INP will replace FID in the Core Web Vitals in March 2024. The Core Web Vitals play a role in the Google Search algorithm. So website owners who care about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) should prepare for the change...
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April 18, 2023 1:00 PM
Making home Internet faster has little to do with “speed”
The speed of an Internet connection is more about decreasing real-world latency than adding underutilized bandwidth...
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March 17, 2023 3:51 PM
Cloudflare Access is the fastest Zero Trust proxy
Cloudflare Access is 75% faster than Netskope and 50% faster than Zscaler, and our network is faster than other providers in 48% of last mile networks...
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January 09, 2023 2:00 PM
Cloudflare is faster than Zscaler
Cloudflare is 38-55% faster at delivering Zero Trust experiences than Zscaler. Let’s talk about why that is and how we found that out...
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May 10, 2022 1:01 PM
A new era for Cloudflare Pages builds
Announcing several build experience improvements for Cloudflare Pages including build times, logging and configuration...
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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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Computing Euclidean distance on 144 dimensions
Last year we deployed a CSAM image scanning tool. This is so cool! Image processing is always hard, and deploying a real image identification system at a Cloudflare scale is no small achievement! But we hit a problem - the matching algorithm was too slow for our needs....
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A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet
QUIC and HTTP/3 are open standards that have been under development in the IETF for almost exactly 4 years. On October 21, 2020, following two rounds of Working Group Last Call, draft 32 of the family of documents that describe QUIC and HTTP/3 were put into IETF Last Call....
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May 26, 2020 5:00 PM
Test your home network performance
Cloudflare launches speed.cloudflare.com, a tool that allows you to gain in-depth insights into the quality of your network uplink, including throughput, latency and jitter....
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January 08, 2020 3:00 PM
Prototyping optimizations with Cloudflare Workers and WebPageTest
Have you ever wanted to quickly test a new performance idea, or see if the latest performance wisdom is beneficial to your site? As web performance appears to be a stochastic process, it is really important to be able to iterate quickly and review the effects of different experim...
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Introducing Argo — A faster, more reliable, more secure Internet for everyone
The Internet is inherently unreliable, a collection of networks connected to each other with fiber optics, copper, microwaves and trust....
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April 11, 2017 9:28 AM
How we made our DNS stack 3x faster
Cloudflare is now well into its 6th year and providing authoritative DNS has been a core part of infrastructure from the start. We’ve since grown to be the largest and one of the fastest managed DNS services on the Internet, hosting DNS for nearly 100,000 of the Alexa top 1M site...
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