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> Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices, and serves them to end users via Google's servers across the globe I don't get it. Given that most websites have some dynamic content, that static assets can be updated, edited or otherwise altered at any time, Google must be fetching content on a request-by-request basis, i/e acting as a proxy. How…
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Cloudflare does a LOT more than this. In fact, the area where they cross-over is the area that interests me the least - I am quite capable of making a website balls-to-the-wall fast without either of their products, but Cloudflare leverage their size to accomplish things I literally could not accomplish without them. I initially wrote Cloudflare off because of this, they don't do a great job of telling you about the…
Care to elaborate? I've been wondering what the advantages are but haven't had the time to look into it in more depth. What's been your experience?
It should be technically possible but I doubt they will offer that.
Can end-users somehow opt-out of the pages they are viewing passing through Google? It should be technically possible but I doubt they will offer that.
Also I probably wouldn't trust some other company enough to proxy my stuff to my users for the price of a slight optimization.
Can end-users somehow opt-out of the pages they are viewing passing through Google? It should be technically possible but I doubt they will offer that.
Why would you want to?
If you don't like the company and want to avoid them, you will now have to choose to not visit websites served through their DNS. That's much more difficult than just using a different email provider.
Can end-users somehow opt-out of the pages they are viewing passing through Google? It should be technically possible but I doubt they will offer that.
Why would you want to?
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Cloudflare does a LOT more than this. In fact, the area where they cross-over is the area that interests me the least - I am quite capable of making a website balls-to-the-wall fast without either of their products, but Cloudflare leverage their size to accomplish things I literally could not accomplish without them. I initially wrote Cloudflare off because of this, they don't do a great job of telling you about the…
Yeah i agree there seems to be some overlap with CloudFlare. I wanted to sign up a client of mine who is running a Wordpress site to CloudFlare, but wasnt able to do so because it required moving their complete zone file over to CloudFlare which they werent able to do for multiple reasons. CloudFlare dont seem to provide a solution where you can just point an A record to their servers (currently). I wonder if this Go…
Contact them for more details.
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Care to elaborate? I've been wondering what the advantages are but haven't had the time to look into it in more depth. What's been your experience?
CloudFlare does proxying and cashing for static and dynamic pages too and adds some security stuff. Not sure they minify and compress static resources, though. So, both services look like they are very different. CloudFlare will speed up a dynamic page that loads slowly, Google's service won't.
Cloudflare does have JS and CSS minify features, as well as some asynchronous JS support.
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Yeah i agree there seems to be some overlap with CloudFlare. I wanted to sign up a client of mine who is running a Wordpress site to CloudFlare, but wasnt able to do so because it required moving their complete zone file over to CloudFlare which they werent able to do for multiple reasons. CloudFlare dont seem to provide a solution where you can just point an A record to their servers (currently). I wonder if this Go…
Cloudflare does have the ability to let you define CNAMES for your site and manage those in your own DNS outside of Cloudflare. I believe it is in limited beta right now but we are testing it and it works great. Contact them for more details.
Would you mind elaborating a little? I did contact them about a month ago, and explained the problem and they just told me it wasnt possible at this moment in time(?)