Company
Date Published
Dec. 21, 2012
Author
John Graham-Cumming
Word count
1724
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

CloudFlare's Railgun technology significantly speeds up the delivery of non-cached web pages by using delta compression to reduce data sent over the internet. Testing with Railgun showed large speedup in page delivery and a median decrease in page load time to 89% of the non-accelerated time, improving user experience worldwide. The technology is particularly beneficial for sites that have already optimized their page load times.