About a year ago, CloudFlare launched Mirage, a service for its paying users that aimed to speed up website loading times by delivering smaller images and using “lazy load” to just download images that actually appeared in the browser’s viewport. Today, the company is almost completely revamping this service based on what it learned from this first version. As the Cloudflare’s founder and CEO Matthew Prince told me, the first version of Mirage took every image on a site and then created five copies of it in different sizes to match the most often used screen sizes. This worked, but it also meant that the new images often didn’t match the layout of the page or size of the screen perfectly. To overcome this issue, CloudFlare is using a pretty ingenious trick in Mirage 2.0
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CloudFlare’s Mirage 2.0 Speeds Up Mobile Sites By Using Virtualized Images And Minimizing Requests
via Arne Ruhnau News http://arneruhnau.com/cloudflares-mirage-2-0-speeds-up-mobile-sites-by-using-virtualized-images-and-minimizing-requests/
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