Cloudflare ensures that your website is protected and performs as fast as possible. Once your website joins the Cloudflare community, its web traffic is routed through their global network of data centers.

Your visitors will experience the fastest page load times and best performance of your website once it's optimized with Cloudflare. You will also benefit from Cloudflare as it protects your site from threats, abusive bots, and crawlers that can waste your bandwidth and server resources.

Performance

Cloudflare optimizes the delivery of website resources to your visitors with speed and performance at the forefront. Cloudflare’s network of data centers serve your website’s static resources and ask your web server for dynamic content which results in the best user experiences.

Cloudflare’s global network provides a faster route for your resource requests to reach your website visitors than if they were to request them directly from your site. Think of it like a speed mushroom in Mario Kart that get's you to the finish line faster.

Reliability

With efficiency in mind, Cloudflare uses its globally distributed Anycast network to route incoming web traffic to the nearest Cloudflare data center. This selective routing distributes the incoming traffic to multiple Cloudflare IP addresses through Cloudflare's distributed DNS. This prevents site crashes, network congestion, and DDoS attacks. This also provides another level of security because it allows your origin web server IP address to be hidden.

Security

Cloudflare stops malicious traffic before it reaches your origin web server. Cloudflare analyzes potential threats in visitor requests based on a number of characteristics:

• Visitor's IP address
• Resources requested
• Request payload and frequency
• Customer-defined firewall rules