Website Performance Matters

This post introduces Cloudflare's core caching mechanism as a reverse proxy distributed globally. It explains how caching resources like images at edge nodes closer to visitors reduces latency and offloads the origin server. The system automatically caches resources without manual configuration, leading to an average of 30% faster website loading times. It also addresses dynamic websites by ensuring only static assets are cached, keeping dynamic content fresh while still offloading larger static assets like images, CSS, and JavaScript.