TIL: #Cloudflare doesn't support the Vary HTTP header, which means the origin server can't do any content negotiation, for example send WebP or AVIF for a JPEG request…
https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/about/cache-control/#other
#Fastly supports it, just saying… 😅
Introducing Speed Brain: helping web pages load 45% faster
With the initial release of Speed Brain, we have designed a solution with important side effect prevention guardrails that completely removes the…
Cloudflare in “Faster website, more customers: Cloudflare Observatory can help your business grow”:
The generated report provides an overall performance score ranging from 1 (least performant) to 99 (most performant)
First try on my photography site: 100 🤷♂️😅
Joke aside, new tools to audit performance are always welcome!
I still don't understand why using Cloudflare in front of Netlify allows for a much better and stable Time To First Byte (TTFB) than Cloudflare Pages or Netlify alone… 🤷♂️
TTFB for static sites should always be very low.
Simon Hearne
Client-side caching is a key technique to improving front-end speed and user experience. Whilst it may appear complex and risky, investing the time…
Some tools transform URLs into links, but if the URL was inside parentheses, the link href sometimes contains the closing ), so the user gets a 404 error… 🤦♂️
Fix this on #Cloudflare Pages with a _redirect file:
/*) /:splat 301