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May 22, 2019 5:14 PM
NGINX structural enhancements for HTTP/2 performance
My team: the Cloudflare PROTOCOLS team is responsible for termination of HTTP traffic at the edge of the Cloudflare network. We deal with features related to: TCP, QUIC, TLS and Secure Certificate management, HTTP/1 and HTTP/2....
May 20, 2019 1:00 PM
One more thing... new Speed Page
With the Speed Page redesign, we are emphasizing the performance benefits of using Cloudflare and the additional improvements possible from our features....
May 17, 2019 1:00 PM
Faster script loading with BinaryAST?
BinaryAST is a new over-the-wire format for JavaScript that aims to speed up parsing while keeping the semantics of the original JavaScript intact....
May 16, 2019 1:00 PM
Live video just got more live: Introducing Concurrent Streaming Acceleration
Today we’re excited to introduce Concurrent Streaming Acceleration, a new technique for reducing the end-to-end latency of live video on the web when using Stream Delivery....
May 15, 2019 1:00 PM
Announcing Cloudflare Image Resizing: Simplifying Optimal Image Delivery
In the past three years, the amount of image data on the median mobile webpage has doubled. Growing images translate directly to users hitting data transfer caps, experiencing slower websites, and even leaving if a website doesn’t load in a reasonable amount of time. ...
May 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Parallel streaming of progressive images
Image-optimized HTTP/2 multiplexing makes all progressive images across the page appear visually complete in half of the time....
May 14, 2019 1:00 PM
Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web
Advancing the state of the art of HTTP/2 to deliver a faster user experience. See why it matters and how much of a difference it can make....
May 13, 2019 1:00 PM
Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone
Today, we are announcing a faster, smarter Argo. One that leverages richer data sets, smarter routing algorithms, and under the hood advancements to deliver a faster-than-ever experience to end users. ...
May 13, 2019 1:00 AM
Welcome to Speed Week!
Every year, we celebrate Cloudflare’s birthday in September when we announce products we’re releasing to help make the Internet better for everyone. We build new and innovative products throughout the year, and having to pick five announcements for just one week of the year is al...
April 17, 2019 12:45 AM
Announcing AMP Real URL
The promise of the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was that it would make the web, and, in particular, the mobile web, much more pleasant to surf. The AMP HTML framework was designed to make web pages load quickly....
March 20, 2019 3:01 PM
Spectrum for UDP: DDoS protection and firewalling for unreliable protocols
Today, we're announcing Spectrum for UDP. Spectrum for UDP works the same as Spectrum for TCP: Spectrum sits between your clients and your origin. Incoming connections are proxied through, whilst applying our DDoS protection and IP Firewall rules. ...
March 20, 2019 1:00 PM
Preventing Request Loops Using CDN-Loop
HTTP requests typically originate with a client, and end at a web server that processes the request and returns some response. Such requests may pass through multiple proxies before they arrive at the requested resource. ...
March 18, 2019 5:47 PM
Monsters in the Middleboxes: Introducing Two New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them....
March 15, 2019 5:01 PM
RFC8482 - Saying goodbye to ANY
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it...