<\/a>As a follow up to the previous post<\/a> on installing CloudFlare<\/a>, the implementation was completed on our corporate site with some astonishing results. \u00a0I must admit, I was skeptical, I was not sure it would really deliver the promise offered.\u00a0 Essentially, there are a lot of features they add for free, and you really can not help but wonder what is thier business model, how do they profit and what do they need to do.\u00a0 I was expecting a range of endless offers for upgrades, new features and such – all at a cost but nothing.<\/p>\n So the end result, the real reason for doing this was an improvement on the speed.\u00a0 We are using webpagetest.org and have been doing so since before the Cloudflare CDN implementation.\u00a0 So while there might be some reservations by others about the accuracy of that platform, and I suspect any platform will have its detractors and non-believers.<\/p>\n Table: Results following the CloudFlare CDN<\/a> with full implementation of CloudFlare<\/p>\n <\/a>Table: Results before implementing the CDN CloudFlare<\/p>\n