Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report

The blog post discusses the performance of Cloudflare's Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) for WordPress sites since its launch. Real-world improvements in several performance metrics, such as Time to First Byte (TTFB), First Contentful Paint (FCP), and Speed Index, were observed through internal testing with WebPageTest. Chrome User Experience Report data also demonstrated significant improvements in these metrics after enabling APO. The post highlights the benefits of synthetic testing using WebPageTest and real-world monitoring using RUM data from Google's Chrome User Experience Report. It also covers extended functionality and compatibility updates for Automatic Platform Optimization, including smart caching for marketing query parameters, improved cache hit ratio, enhanced security features, page rules integration, subdomain support, and caching by device type. The post concludes that APO has shown consistent improvements in performance metrics across various scenarios and emphasizes the importance of customer feedback in driving product development.