Cloudflare Application Security and Performance Reviews & Product Details

Cloudflare is the connectivity cloud for the "everywhere world," on a mission to help build a better Internet. We provide a unified platform of networking, security, and developer services delivered from a single, intelligent global network that spans hundreds of cities in over 125 countries. This empowers organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to the world's largest enterprises, to make their employees, applications, and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while significantly reducing complexity and cost. Our comprehensive platform includes: - Advanced Security: Protect your online presence with industry-leading DDoS protection, a robust Web Application Firewall (WAF), Bot mitigation, and API security. Implement Zero Trust security to secure remote access, data, and applications for your entire workforce. - Superior Performance: Accelerate website and application loading times globally with our Content Delivery Network (CDN), intelligent DNS, and smart routing capabilities. Optimize images and deliver dynamic content with unparalleled speed. - Powerful Developer Tools: Empower your developers to build and deploy full-stack applications at the edge using Cloudflare Workers (serverless functions), R2 Storage (object storage without egress fees), and D1 (serverless SQL database). Cloudflare helps connect and protect millions of customers globally, offering the control, visibility, and reliability businesses need to work, develop, and accelerate their operations in today's hyperconnected landscape. Our global network continuously learns and adapts, ensuring your digital assets are always protected and performing at their best.

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Product Description

Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solutions provide performance, reliability, and security for all of your web applications and APIs, wherever they are hosted and wherever your users are.

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Meghan Weinreich

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Cloudflare Application Security and Performance Demo - Cloudflare Dashboard

An entire suite of additional performance and security services are provided in addition to caching on the Cloudflare CDN. Traffic stats and site visits are easily accessed from the main dashboard page.

Cloudflare Application Security and Performance Demo - Web Content Optimization

Cloudflare provides a variety of additional services to improve the delivery of image and video files.

Cloudflare Application Security and Performance Demo - Integrated Security

Keep track of your application's JavaScript dependencies and receive alerts when they change.

Frost & Sullivan talks about why lightning fast content delivery is paramount in today's digital world and how Cloudflare provides solutions to enable organizations to deliver the best user experiences.

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Whitepaper: 3 challenges of securing and connecting application services

Solution Brief: Cloudflare's Everywhere Security

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Magnum N.

Director of Product

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/10/2025

"One of the mose secure and incidence free waf."

5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

It has helped offer a high performimg and high availability secure platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cost is tad high, but it offers a comprehensive suite. You have to make most of it to optimise cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saurabh S.

System Admin

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/9/2024

"Reliable and Scalable Web Security with Cloudflare"

4/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cloudflare’s ease of setup, especially the ability to integrate it seamlessly with existing websites.

Performance improvements: Site loading speeds and optimization.

Security features: Advanced DDoS protection, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and SSL/TLS support.

Scalability: Handles traffic spikes without downtime.

Free Plan: Provides robust features even on the free tier, such as DNS management, SSL encryption, and CDN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Learning curve: For beginners, some of the more advanced features (e.g., page rules, Workers) can be complex.

Pricing for advanced features: Some features, such as Argo or the higher tiers of security, can get expensive for small businesses.

Customer support: While Cloudflare has extensive documentation, getting direct customer support may be limited on the lower-tier plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

DDoS protection: Shielding websites from malicious traffic and attacks.

Global content delivery: Distributing content quickly to global users via CDN.

Improving load times: Accelerating website performance through caching and minifying scripts.

Reliable DNS management: Providing fast and secure DNS resolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/28/2025

"Don't Pay for Support"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

In general, cloudflare is really easy to navigate, especially for simple DNS and domain management. Unless you have a complicated setup, I find it easy enough to move a domain or simply manage DNS for most sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Their support is terrible. Had an issue with a client's DNS and the person I was talking to clearly didn't have a clue what they were talking about. They took so long between answers, it seemed like they were just asking someone else. Ultimately, they were of no help and we were out the money we paid to have live support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicolas F.

Founder & Cybersecurity Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/16/2024

"High level of Application Security"

5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

The dashboard: straightforward and easy to understand.High level of security for multiple users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

The pricing might not be readily accesible to startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/16/2024

"Cloudflare Application Security and PerformanceA Powerful Tool for Optimal Protection and Efficiency"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

The combination of capabilities that optimize performance and offer complete security against cyber attacks is what makes Cloudflare Application Security and Performance so appealing to me. The platform is quite good at protecting apps and improving performance and dependability, which makes for a smooth and safe user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

The learning curve for some of Cloudflare's more advanced functions is one area that needs improvement. Even though the platform has a lot of features, it could take some time and effort to become completely familiar with them all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Safeguarding applications against cyber threats, preventing DDoS assaults, and improving load times are just a few of the important concerns that Cloudflare Application Security and Performance tackles. It contributes to the protection of sensitive data, downtime reduction, and faster, more dependable user experience by improving security and performance. In the end, this helps me because it guarantees strong application security and increased operational effectiveness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/19/2024

"Easy to setup"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Features like caching, load balancing, and Automatic Platform Optimization help improve website speed and reliabilit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Slow support and no annual pricing for addons Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Security threats: Cloudflare's robust security features, including DDoS protection, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and SSL/TLS encryption, have significantly enhanced our defense against cyber attacks. This gives us peace of mind knowing our sites are shielded from a variety of online threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lakshmi I.

Developer

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/2/2024

"Best CDN Provider"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

- Cloudflare provides a free CDN to our website

- Cloudflare provides a firewall and the best security for our website

- It has the best user-friendly interface.

- It helps to hide the IP of the original server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Not provided proper documentation for Turnstile.

Sometimes issues with the cache, free plan has limited control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/28/2025

"Love the product- support could use some work"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Super easy to use. Very developer friendly. Tons of value for price. Undoubtedly #1 in WAF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Could use some better support. No direct channels for tech questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul S.

Full Stack Developer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/7/2024

"It provides real time security and uptime to our websites."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Cloudflare has been great in terms of securing and managing our domains and sites from one simple dashboard. It has provide great uptime and performance analytics to our websites very reliably. There are many more tools like speed testing, DNS records, caching, routes and many more which helped us monitor our site and user experience. Their customer support is also fast as their speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

They charge a little bit high price for extra features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudflare Application Security and Performance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudflare has brought awesome outcomes for us in terms of our website's security and performance monitoring from one dashboard. Now, we don't need any dedicated team for website security as all the security and performance measures are taken by Cloudflare automatically. It provides all different kinds of analytics for our sites with bot detection features to prevent attacks on our sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akash S.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/3/2023

"Fastest and Secure DNS Service"

5/5

What do you like best about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

its service is fast compare to other platform , and its easy to use.

Its security is high and many feature available in their platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudflare Application Security and Performance?

Sometimes, Cloudflare DNS can pass down or revel in distinctive problems. This can cause you to have hassle connecting to websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.