Cloudflare: This new WordPress accelerator makes sites much faster for visitors
Summary
DDoS protection and website accelerator Cloudflare has teamed up with WordPress to launch its new Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) service to speed up a sites experience for end users. Dynamic content is usually served from origin servers rather than a cache, and also relies on server-side scripts to generate HTML files in response to events, such as a click on a button or a user login. According to Cloudflare, WordPress sites are prone to incurring performance penalties because of plugins or other sources that may be hard to pinpoint and resolve. "With the Automatic Platform Optimization service, we put your website into our network that is within 10 milliseconds of 99% of the internet-connected population in the developed world, all without having to change your existing hosting provider," the company explains in a blogpost. The reason for the major improvement to TTFB is because the first hop between a users browser request would normally go to the WordPress and third-party domain origin server.