Early Hints update: How Cloudflare, Google, and Shopify are working together to build a faster Internet for everyone

The article discusses "Early Hints," a product developed by Cloudflare that can significantly improve page load performance. Since its launch, over 100,000 customers have used Early Hints on the platform. The technology takes advantage of server think time to send instructions to the browser to begin loading readily-available resources while the server finishes compiling the full response. This results in a faster page load for end users. Google has recently announced that Early Hints is available in Chrome version 103 with support for preload and preconnect to start, which will mean many more requests will see the performance benefits. The article also provides insights into how much Early Hints improved performance of customers' websites and shares best practices and strategies for better performance.