Cloudflare: Does it really impact users?
Hello Guys,
Do you know how impact Cloudflare is on your users? I integrate it a couple of weeks back and my number of daily activity users is dropped drastically. Is that something know or what causes it?
This is the website https://weboproxy.com
However, now I have removed it! What is your idea about this?
Unless you are using some advanced CF features that cause errors on your site, e.g. I had issues with the mobile rocket, it should not affect your users (except for making the site faster).
We are using the free tire and have enabled every possible feature to optimized the website's performance. Anyway, performance increased rapidly thanks to Cloudflare.
Be careful with some of those non-standard features. You might not need them, they could slow your site down, or cause errors. A lot of the more advanced features are only if you have a poorly constructed site.
Thank you very much. I also read that Rocket Loader is harmful, it's not good for AdSense as well. I will disable those features and do a test run.
@Kesara Not usually. But due to the type of website you have, the people who use it may be people who block Cloudflare.
Cloudflare is not good from a privacy perspective (more centralisation, single point of failure for the internet, censorship based on politics).
Number of daily actives has nothing to do with Cloudflare. CF just helps with caching / speeding up your site/ etc. So if anything, it'll be better for you.
Thank you. But just after integrating Cloudflare, we have experienced a huge traffic drop.
Cloudflare is a proxy, so it will likely add some latency for dynamic content. For static content if caching is properly configured it should improve performance. But for dynamic content you might see higher TTFB. I am using Cloudflare only as a CDN now because of this.
There must be a stats somewhere showing how many times it requested CAPTCHA verification before allowing users to access the site.
Yeah, In the firewall section, there are several records saying they showed a challenge but that's not enough to understand the traffic decrease.
Maybe someone was using the service in an automated way and now gets the captcha from CF? That would certainly reduce the number of requests you are getting.
This can be the problem, but is there a way to certain this?
You‘d have to do some analysis on the user agents / IPs and see if there are any patters (a lot of them with same user agent, datacenter IPs etc)
Thank you very much. I will look into that