Performance measurements… and the people who love them
2025-05-20
Developers have a gut-felt understanding for performance, but that intuition breaks down when systems reach Cloudflare’s scale....
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Are you measuring what matters? A fresh look at Time To First Byte
2023-06-20
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...
Benchmarking Edge Network Performance: Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, and Google
2021-09-17
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....
Introducing Automatic Platform Optimization, starting with WordPress
2020-10-02
Today, we are announcing a new service to serve more than just the static content of your website with the Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) service. With this launch, we're supporting WordPress....
