First Numbers from CloudFlare

IcyApril

@mlnews Hi; I work for CloudFlare. Just wanted to share a few tips that might be able to help your performance:

HTTPS - By enabling HTTPS you can allow your users to access your site through HTTP/2 and SPDY, which dramatically improves page load speed. After this is enabled, you can configure HTTP/2 Server Push to get things to be even faster.
Page Rules - Page Rules allow you to use a "Cache Everything" setting where you can even cache static content.
On your server be sure to whitelist CloudFlare's IPs to make sure they're not rate limiting your connection to us.
Ensure correct cache headers are being sent to ensure the content you want to cache, is being cached by us.

Hope your enjoying our service so far! Let us know if you need any further help.

Alex Sage

HTTPS - By enabling HTTPS you can allow your users to access your site through HTTP/2 and SPDY, which dramatically improves page load speed. After this is enabled, you can configure HTTP/2 Server Push to get things to be even faster.

lol. How long has this been on @scottalanmiller todo list? It took us 2 years to get email, hopefully we can get this done faster?

Dashrender

@aaronstuder said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

@IcyApril said:

HTTPS - By enabling HTTPS you can allow your users to access your site through HTTP/2 and SPDY, which dramatically improves page load speed. After this is enabled, you can configure HTTP/2 Server Push to get things to be even faster.

lol. How long has this been on @scottalanmiller todo list? It took us 2 years to get email, hopefully we can get this done faster?

We already have HTTPS here at ML, you just have to do it on purpose, it's not forced upon you.

Dashrender

But when I type HTTPS I get this.

Alex Sage

@Dashrender I am not happy until it is enabled by default, and I get a green lock

coliver

@Dashrender said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

But when I type HTTPS I get this.

Probably because the images are hosted by imgur?

Alex Sage

@coliver That's my thought

Alex Sage

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Alex Sage

Seems like the Rackspace CDN is the issue?

Dashrender

@aaronstuder said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

@Dashrender I am not happy until it is enabled by default, and I get a green lock

A green lock? Don't you only get Green locks for companies that pay for extended validation? I'm totally with Danielle on that one, no way I'd have Groove Social pay for a EV cert for this site. The free cert is plenty.

Alex Sage

@Dashrender Green Lock, ( https://i.imgur.com/PJdLmfc.png ) not Green Bar.....

coliver

@Dashrender said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

@aaronstuder said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

@Dashrender I am not happy until it is enabled by default, and I get a green lock

A green lock? Don't you only get Green locks for companies that pay for extended validation? I'm totally with Danielle on that one, no way I'd have Groove Social pay for a EV cert for this site. The free cert is plenty.

Green bar is the EV ones... basically just a marketing scam.

Alex Sage

@coliver Right, but Green Lock just means everything is fine with the SSL Certificate.

coliver

@aaronstuder said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

@coliver Right, but Green Lock just means everything is fine with the SSL Certificate.

Yep.

Dashrender

OK never heard of the green lock before.

is forced TLS a requirement of green lock? Seems unlikely.

We don't get a green lock because of the RS CDN you found.

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

@IcyApril said:

HTTPS - By enabling HTTPS you can allow your users to access your site through HTTP/2 and SPDY, which dramatically improves page load speed. After this is enabled, you can configure HTTP/2 Server Push to get things to be even faster.

lol. How long has this been on @scottalanmiller todo list? It took us 2 years to get email, hopefully we can get this done faster?

But email was NOT on MY to do list. You never waited for me.

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

@IcyApril said:

HTTPS - By enabling HTTPS you can allow your users to access your site through HTTP/2 and SPDY, which dramatically improves page load speed. After this is enabled, you can configure HTTP/2 Server Push to get things to be even faster.

lol. How long has this been on @scottalanmiller todo list? It took us 2 years to get email, hopefully we can get this done faster?

It's never been on my to do list. But HTTPS works. Are you using it? After the first month it only ever got up to 6% usage.

scottalanmiller

@IcyApril said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

@mlnews Hi; I work for CloudFlare. Just wanted to share a few tips that might be able to help your performance:

Welcome to the community!!

scottalanmiller

@IcyApril said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

@mlnews Hi; I work for CloudFlare. Just wanted to share a few tips that might be able to help your performance:

HTTPS - By enabling HTTPS you can allow your users to access your site through HTTP/2 and SPDY, which dramatically improves page load speed. After this is enabled, you can configure HTTP/2 Server Push to get things to be even faster.

HTTPS is there now. Is there something more needed?

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

@Dashrender I am not happy until it is enabled by default, and I get a green lock

It's on by default if you type the right address It's only not on if you specify the wrong protocol. If you type nothing and it goes to the one you don't want, that's a wrong default in your browser, not with the site.