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Engineering — Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? — Smashing Magazine

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? — Smashing Magazine

In the right circumstances, your web analytics or real user measurement data can offer visibility into the world of imposter domains, used by web scrapers to re-publish your site content on their servers. Content scraping is a fact of life on the Internet. When you think of web scraping, you probably do not think about the scrapers turning around and immediately serving your entire, whole page con

KHKen HarkerKen Harker·September 20, 2021Engineering
Frontend — Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

My favorite kind of blog post is when someone takes a subject that I’ve spent all of five minutes considering and then says—no!—this is an enormous topic

RRRobin RendleRobin Rendle·September 17, 2021Frontend
Frontend — Early Hints: How Cloudflare Can Improve Website Load Times by 30%

Early Hints: How Cloudflare Can Improve Website Load Times by 30%

Today, Cloudflare is announcing support for Early Hints. Early Hints takes advantage of “server think time” to asynchronously send instructions to the browser to begin loading resources while the origin server is compiling the full response, which can improve page load time by 30%.

AAlexAlex·September 16, 2021Frontend
Performance — The Zero Trust platform built for speed

The Zero Trust platform built for speed

Cloudflare for Teams secures your company’s users, devices, and data — without slowing you down. Your team should not need to sacrifice performance in order to be secure.

KTKenny, Tim ObezukKenny, Tim Obezuk·September 16, 2021Performance
Performance — Magic makes your network faster

Magic makes your network faster

Today, as part of Speed Week, we’ll break down the other side of the Magic: how using Cloudflare can automatically make your entire network faster.

AAnnikaAnnika·September 16, 2021Performance
Frontend — Minding the "gap"

Minding the "gap"

Read an updated article with an approach that uses modern CSS features.

PBPatrick BrossetPatrick Brosset·September 16, 2021Frontend
Engineering — Shadow Roots and Inheritance

Shadow Roots and Inheritance

There is a helluva gotcha with styling a <details> element, as documented here by Kitty Giraudel. It's obscure enough that you might never run into it,

CCChris Coyier·September 16, 2021Engineering
Career & Teams — Reasons To Build A CRM-Powered Website For Your Business — Smashing Magazine

Reasons To Build A CRM-Powered Website For Your Business — Smashing Magazine

Neglecting to cater your business website to your customers is not only detrimental to your sales but can also hurt your team’s productivity and operations. Integrating a CRM with your business website has numerous benefits. You equip various departments within your company with tools to organize and automate work and improve efficiency. In this article, Zara Cooper explains what these benefits ar

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·September 16, 2021Career & Teams
Engineering — Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone

Today, we are launching Cloudflare Images for all customers. Images provides a single product to store, resize and serve images. We built Cloudflare Images, so customers of all sizes can build a scalable and affordable image pipeline with a fraction of the effort.

ZZaidZaid·September 15, 2021Engineering