Welcome to Speed Week 2023

All the way up to 11: Serve Brotli from origin and Introducing Compression Rules

Today, we're enhancing our support for Brotli compression, enabling end-to-end Brotli compression for web content. Compression plays a vital role in reducing bytes during transfers, ensuring quicker downloads and seamless browsing

How we scaled and protected Eurovision 2023 voting with Pages and Turnstile

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...

Making Cloudflare Pages the fastest way to serve your sites

Pages is now the fastest way to serve your sites across Netlify, Vercel and many others and we’re so proud

Speeding up APIs with Ricochet for API Gateway

Today we’re announcing Ricochet for API Gateway, the easiest way for Cloudflare customers to achieve faster API responses through automatic, intelligent API response caching

Introducing the Cloudflare Radar Internet Quality Page

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...

A step-by-step guide to transferring domains to Cloudflare

Transferring your domains to a new registrar isn’t something you do every day, and getting any step of the process wrong could mean downtime and disruption. We’ve built a domain transfer checklist to help you quickly and safely transfer your domains...

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⚡️ What Launched Today - Friday, June 23 - Cloudflare TV

Thursday

Understanding end user-connectivity and performance with Digital Experience...

DEX allows administrators to monitor their WARP Deployment and create predefined application tests. Features include live team & device analytics, server and traceroute tests, Synthetic Application Monitoring, and Fleet Status for real-time...

Speeding up your (WordPress) website is a few clicks away

In this blog, we will explain where the opportunities exist to improve website performance, how to check if a specific site can improve performance, and provide a small JavaScript snippet which can be used with Cloudflare Workers to do this...

Descale your network with Cloudflare’s enhanced Descaler Program

At its core, the Descaler Program helps derisk change. It’s designed to be simple and straightforward, with resources to ensure a smooth transition and supporting technology to ensure the migration achieves your organization's goals

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

Network performance update: Speed Week 2023

In this post we are going to share the most recent updates, and tell you about our tools and processes that we use to monitor and improve our network performance.

How we think about Zero Trust Performance

In this blog, we’re going to talk about why end-to-end performance is the most important thing to look at, why other methods like proxy latency and decrypted latency SLAs are insufficient for performance evaluations, and how you can measure your Zero...

Globally distributed AI and a Constellation update

Today we’re announcing new Constellation features, explain why it’s the first globally distributed AI platform and why deploying your machine learning tasks in our global network is advantageous.

Donning a MASQUE: building a new protocol into Cloudflare WARP

Announcing support for MASQUE, a cutting-edge new protocol for the beta version of our consumer WARP iOS app

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⚡️ What Launched Today - Thursday, June 22 - Cloudflare TV

Wednesday

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

Cloudflare Snippets is now available in alpha

Cloudflare Snippets are available in alpha. Snippets are a simple way of executing a small piece of Javascript on select HTTP requests, using the ruleset engine filtering logic

Part 2: Rethinking cache purge with a new architecture

In this post we’ll be talking about some of the architecture improvements we’ve made so far for Cache Purge and what we’re working on now

It's never been easier to migrate thanks to Cloudflare's new Migration Hub

Today, we are thrilled to relaunch Turpentine, and introduce Cloudflare's new Migration Hub. The Migration Hub serves as a one-stop-shop for all migration needs, featuring brand-new migration guides that bring transparency and simplicity to the...

Workers KV is faster than ever with a new architecture

With the new architecture powering Workers KV our service will become faster and more scalable than ever. We have significantly reduced cold read probability, and enabled KV to serve over a trillion requests a month

How Kinsta used Workers and Workers KV to improve cache hit rates by 56%

Kinsta delivers tailored cloud hosting solutions to over 26,000 companies across 128 countries. Learn how they used Workers and Workers KV to improve cache performance and customer performance

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⚡️ What Launched Today - Wednesday, June 21 - Cloudflare TV

Tuesday

Faster website, more customers: Cloudflare Observatory can help your business...

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

Are you measuring what matters? A fresh look at Time To First Byte

Time To First Byte (TTFB) is not a good way to measure your websites performance. In this blog we’ll cover what TTFB is a good indicator of, what it's not great for, and what you should be using instead

Introducing Timing Insights: new performance metrics via our GraphQL API

If you care about the performance of your website or APIs, it’s critical to understand why things are slow. Today we're introducing new analytics tools to help you understand what is contributing to "Time to First Byte" (TTFB) of Cloudflare and your...

Introducing HTTP/3 Prioritization

Today, Cloudflare is very excited to announce full support for HTTP/3 Extensible Priorities, a new standard that speeds the loading of webpages by up to 37%

How to use Cloudflare Observatory for performance experiments

Introducing Cloudflare's Performance Experiments in Observatory: Safely test code, improve website speed, and minimize risk

Argo Smart Routing for UDP: speeding up gaming, real-time communications and...

Today, Cloudflare is super excited to announce that we’re bringing traffic acceleration to customer’s UDP traffic. Now, you can improve the latency of UDP-based applications like video games, voice calls, and video meetings by up to 17%