Cloudflare

Cloudflare Inc. runs a global network that makes websites and internet services faster and safer. It describes its mission as helping to build a better internet.

What Cloudflare offers

• Web performance — routes and delivers site traffic across its own network of data centres.
• Security — protects sites and services that pass through the network.
• Global network — one of the larger networks in the world, spread across many data centres.

Who it works with

Its network handles traffic for a very large number of sites. The company says it processes trillions of requests each month, close to a tenth of all internet requests, and that this reaches billions of people worldwide.

Key facts

• Network size: More than 100 data centres
• Reach: Requests affecting more than 2.5 billion people globally
• Focus: Web performance and security