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Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache

by lilouartz on 8/25/24, 1:48 PM with 25 comments

• by pbowyer on 8/25/24, 7:50 PM

  > Serve Stale Content While Revalidating (Not Working as Expected)

  > This is the only thing that I was not able to figure out.

  For good reason, because (at the last time I tried this earlier this year) Cloudflare documents stale-while-revalidate as if it's supported [1], but it isn't [2], [3].

  Cloudflare instead has a different behaviour [4], [5] which helps in some circumstances but not all.

  I use Fastly's free CDN plan to get round this.

  1. https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/concepts/revalidatio...

  2. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/support-for-stale-while-r...

  3. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/when-will-cloudflare-full...

  4. https://kerkour.com/cloudflare-stale-while-revalidate

  5. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48124415/does-cloudflare...

• by turtlebits on 8/25/24, 6:36 PM

  Before adding complexity, try to make your web sites smaller!

  I'm not a big fan of adding more complexity (infra and money) to improve performance.

• by arghwhat on 8/25/24, 9:57 PM

  To use the cache you shouldn’t need to do any of this - just have appropriate cache headers.

• by daviding on 8/25/24, 5:27 PM

  Some rough cost numbers of using this would be nice.

• by j45 on 8/25/24, 7:20 PM

  Cloudflares free cache is pretty good as well.

  Also have heard things like jscompress to reduce the number of calls on loading a page can go a long way too to boost speed.

• by wetimeai on 8/25/24, 7:43 PM

  is is a quick fix. and for smaller websites i recommend it. However it has its limits and it can frustrate when you are developing. But in general yeah good free service.

• by taw1285 on 8/26/24, 5:16 PM

  does this approach make sense for an app-router based nextjs app hosted on vercel?