What cloudflare acceleration will affect

Alkir

On cloudflare, there is a tab "speed". There is a compression code. Will this affect the performance of flarum

clarkwinkelmann

Alkir are you referring to "Auto Minify" ?

I suppose it can improve the load time for JS, CSS and HTML on slow connections as Flarum isn't minifying them. Technically, the additional work to minify that data might make it a bit slower, but I can also trust Cloudflare to be super efficient at that. Some testing with and without the feature would be interesting.

However once Flarum is loaded and you browse between pages, only API (and images) requests are made and those aren't impacted by "Auto Minify", so likely no performance change there.

I have never used that feature on any website myself.

luceos

clarkwinkelmann webdeveloper.com, flagrow.io and if I'm not mistaken this forum all use cloudflare caching. They all use cloudflare for sure.

clarkwinkelmann

luceos all my forums are on Cloudflare as well. The OP refers to the "speed" page (not cache) which only lists optional features, so I guess the feature concerned here is "Auto Minify". Maybe you know if any of these websites use it ?

luceos

flarum.org and webdeveloper.com both use Brotli, but no html, css or js minification.
Flagrow.io uses Brotli and minification of all files.