Cloudflare, Inc.
SERVER-SIDE RESOURCE PRIORITIZATION

Abstract:

A process for prioritizing content responses executed by a first server in a distributed cloud platform. The first server including processor, and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the first server to perform operations including to receive, at a proxy server, a request for a plurality of content items from a client device, where the proxy server is in a distributed cloud computing platform, to receive at least one of the plurality of content items from an origin server or a cache, to determine a priority scheme for ordering the plurality of content items, where the priority scheme differs from a priority scheme of the client device and differs from a priority scheme of a domain of the plurality of content items, and to send a response including the plurality of content items to the client device in an order according to the priority determined scheme.