Performance

October 05, 2021 12:58 PM

Contemporary x86 processors implement some variants of Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost. We decided to learn about the implications of these two technologies....

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• Sung Park

September 17, 2021 1:00 PM

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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• John Graham-Cumming

July 28, 2021 12:59 PM

Crawler Hints provide high quality data to search engine crawlers on when content has been changed on sites using Cloudflare, allowing them to precisely time their crawling, avoid wasteful crawls, and generally reduce resource consumption of customer origins....

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• John Graham-Cumming
• , Alex Krivit

July 27, 2021 12:59 PM

Using Arm, Cloudflare can now securely process over ten times as many Internet requests for every watt of power consumed, than we did for servers designed in 2013. ...

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• Nitin Rao
• , James Allworth
• , Sung Park

April 14, 2021 1:01 PM

Google’s new page experience measurements are going to be included in their search ranking in May 2021. Learn more about how to improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers....

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• Erwin van der Koogh
• , Sebastian Benz
• , Jake Fried

March 19, 2021 12:00 PM

Up until now, we wouldn’t cache requests with query strings until we saw them three times. We trace that behavior back to 2010, examine why we might have needed it, and show ourselves why we don’t need it anymore....

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• Edward Wang

March 16, 2021 12:00 PM

We explored almost 200 websites with the activated Automatic Platform Optimization feature in Chrome User Experience Report data. Automatic Platform Optimization consistently demonstrated better aggregate performance among sites we analyzed in TTFB, First Paint, FCP, and LCP metr...

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• Yevgen Safronov

February 18, 2021 8:00 PM

We are introducing a new topology for Tiered Cache that reduces origin load by increasing cache hit ratio....

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• Brian Bradley

December 18, 2020 12:00 PM

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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• Marek Majkowski

November 19, 2020 10:38 PM

Making things fast is one of the things we do at Cloudflare. More responsive websites, apps, APIs, and networks directly translate into improved conversion and user experience. ...

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• Rustam Lalkaka
• , Rita Kozlov

September 30, 2020 1:00 PM

A look at a new DNS resource record intended to speed-up negotiation of HTTP security and performance features and how it will help make the web faster....

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• Alessandro Ghedini

September 29, 2020 1:00 PM

We're partnering with the Google Chrome team to bring Web Vitals measurements into Browser Insights. Web Vitals are a new set of metrics to help web developers and website owners measure and understand load time, responsiveness, and visual stability....

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• Jon Levine

September 24, 2020 11:00 AM

Firewall Rules lets customers filter the traffic hitting their site, powered by our Wirefilter engine. We’re excited to share some in-depth optimizations we have recently made to improve the performance of our edge....

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• Zak Cutner

July 01, 2020 11:00 AM

As with all Cloudflare security products, the WAF is designed to not sacrifice performance for security, but there is always room for improvement. This blog post provides a brief overview of the latest performance improvements that were rolled out to our customers....

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• Miguel de Moura