What is Cloudflare CDN?
Cloudflare is a powerful content delivery network (CDN) that aims to transform the internet by enhancing the speed, security, and intelligence of websites. As a distributed network of servers, Cloudflare's CDN caches website content, resulting in faster page load times, reduced bandwidth usage, and decreased server CPU load. With its expansive global infrastructure, Cloudflare serves more web traffic than the combined efforts of major tech giants like Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Instagram, Bing, and Wikipedia. Impressively, every time Cloudflare pushes new code, it immediately impacts over 200 million web users, and the average internet user interacts with Cloudflare's services more than 500 times per week. Cloudflare's commitment to innovation is evident, as it onboards over 10,000 new customers daily, solidifying its position as a vital component in the modern web landscape
Highlights
- Caching of website content to improve page load speeds, reduce bandwidth usage, and decrease server CPU load
- Global network of over 102 points-of-presence to serve web traffic efficiently
- Immediate impact on over 200 million web users with each code update
- 10,000+ new customers signing up for Cloudflare's services daily
- Average internet user interacting with Cloudflare's services more than 500 times per week
Features
ETag header support
Fast cache purge
Intelligent traffic routing to avoid congestion
Support for MPEG-DASH, HLS, and CMAF video files
Cache tags
Cache control header extensions
Customizable cache expiration periods (TTL)
Concurrent Streaming Acceleration
China supportAPI programmability
Web cache deception protection
Cross origin resource sharing (CORS) support