CloudFlare and SEO
2011-06-25
In April 2010, around the time we launched the CloudFlare private beta to a limited set of test users, Google announced that they were going to start taking site speed into account in their rankings....
1 Billion Served (Every Day)
2011-06-25
About 8 months ago I posted a blog post about how CloudFlare had served 1 billion requests that month. It was quite a milestone for our young startup. This week we crossed a new milestone: now serving more than 1 billion requests every day. ...
An All New (and Improved) AutoMinify
2011-06-18
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......
CloudFlare's Singapore Data Center Now Online
2011-06-17
The Merlion is a symbol of Singapore. The fish with a head of a lion guards the port of Singapore as a gateway to south Asia. We're excited to announce that CloudFlare now joins the Merlion in protecting the region. Late last night we turned on our Singapore data center....
CDNJS: Community Moderated Javascript Libraries + CloudFlare
2011-06-16
If you're using a Javascript library, the ideal case is that your visitors arrive on your site with it already stored in their browser's cache. The more sites that use the same URL to reference the library, the more likely it is that it will be cached even for first-time visitors. ...
Everything Starts Somewhere
2011-06-14
This evening, as I went to get some pictures off my camera, I came across these photos from almost a year ago I don't remember taking. They're from the early days of CloudFlare. In the next few weeks we'll welcome our 20th employee. ...
Frankfurt Data Center Makes 11!
2011-06-14
Frankfurt has been known for its business center, its techno music, and, well, its frankfurters. Now add another item to the list: CloudFlare's newest data center! Frankfurt turns CloudFlare's dance music volume past 10 to 11 data centers worldwide. ...
App a Day #8 - Clicky Real-Time Analytics for Your Website
2011-06-10
With Clicky enabled, you will understand where your visitors are coming from and how they interact with your site. Accurate logs of every visitor and click on your website, combined with advanced segmentation and analysis tools, help you control the destiny of your website....
How CloudFlare Rocket Loader Redefines the Modern CDN
2011-06-09
At CloudFlare, we built our own CDN from the ground up. We used the latest technologies like solid state drives and Anycast routing and geo load balancing to make it as fast and efficient as possible....
Alert the Ewings! CloudFlare's Dallas Data Center Now Live!
2011-05-20
Some people from Texas were confused when we said we brought up our data center in Paris. They thought we meant Paris, Texas, not Paris, France. We wanted to end that confusion as quickly as possible, so we're turning on the Dallas (Texas) data center too....
Ohh La La! CloudFlare Paris Data Center Goes Live!
2011-05-20
It was croissants, brie, and crêpes around the CloudFlare office today as our Paris data center went live. Paris joins Amsterdam as CloudFlare's second European data center. Amsterdam has traditionally been our busiest data center. ...
2,000 Page Views Per Second
2011-05-17
This morning we crossed a milestone: delivering a sustained average of 2,000 page views per second. Peak traffic is even higher. ...
Zone Apex / Naked Domain / Root Domain CNAME Support for Amazon EC2, Google App Engine and Other Cloud Hosts
2011-05-16
CloudFlare now supports CNAME Flattening, which is a better solution to this same problem. Read more in our knowledge base. ...
People Just Liked It Better That Way!
2011-05-13
We finished our update to our Amsterdam data center over night. Previously, we had used leased equipment in Amsterdam to power CloudFlare's service. While it worked ok, it wasn't specifically optimized for the network-heavy loads a service like ours creates. ...
Hong Kong Data Center, Now Online!
2011-05-12
In CloudFlare's relentless effort to make the web faster and safer worldwide, we're excited to announce our newest data center came online last night: Hong Kong. Approximately 10% of the traffic to CloudFlare's network currently originates from Hong Kong and China. ...
Google Analytics: Now with Site Speed
2011-05-10
Last week Google Analytics announced that they would begin integrating Site Speed tracking. This is an awesome new way for site administrators to see how well their pages are performing. CloudFlare has always been a fan of Google Analytics. ...
W3 Total Cache (W3TC): Total CloudFlare Integration
2011-05-09
CloudFlare is excited to announce that the WordPress performance plugin W3 Total Cache (W3TC) now fully integrates CloudFlare's performance and security. CloudFlare and W3TC's missions are aligned: making sites perform as fast as possible....
CloudFlare New Jersey Now Online
2011-05-03
CloudFlare's newest data center just started receiving traffic. Located just over the river from Manhattan in New Jersey, the latest facility is already taking load away from our facility in Ashburn, VA. ...
News From CloudFlare Labs: Javascript Preloader Research
2011-05-03
Some of the techniques that CloudFlare uses to make sites faster and safer have generally been around and used by the Internet Giants for some time. In other places, CloudFlare is breaking new ground in offering state-of-the-art technologies to increase performance and security. ...
What's On CloudFlare's Mind
2011-05-02
The news of Osama bin Laden's death last night caused us to investigate what searches people were running that led them to a CloudFlare-powered site....