As speed, reliability, and user experience continue to define success on the modern web, Cloudflare’s latest move signals a major step forward for developers and content-first businesses alike. Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, has announced that the team behind Astro—the fast-growing open source JavaScript framework—will be joining Cloudflare. The acquisition underscores a shared vision: building a faster, more sustainable future for high-performance, content-driven websites.
Why Performance Matters More Than Ever
Search engines increasingly reward fast-loading, lightweight pages, while users expect near-instant access to content. Websites that rely heavily on client-side JavaScript rendering often struggle to meet these expectations, resulting in slower load times, lower search rankings, and reduced conversion rates.
Astro was built specifically to address this challenge. Instead of shipping large amounts of JavaScript to the browser, Astro loads only the critical code required to render each page. This approach dramatically improves web performance, making Astro a preferred JavaScript framework for developers focused on speed, SEO optimization, and clean architecture.
Astro’s Role in Content-Driven Web Development
Astro has quickly gained traction among both enterprises and the global developer community. Major brands such as Unilever, Visa, and NBC News already rely on Astro to power fast, content-rich digital experiences. Hundreds of thousands of developers use the framework to build blogs, marketing sites, documentation hubs, and media platforms optimized for performance.
With Cloudflare’s global network and infrastructure expertise, Astro is positioned to scale even further—without compromising its core principles. Importantly, Astro will remain open source under Cloudflare’s stewardship, ensuring transparency, community-driven innovation, and long-term stability.
A Strong Commitment to Open Source
Cloudflare has been explicit about its intentions. The company views open source software as essential to a free and open internet, and Astro fits squarely within that philosophy.
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, emphasized that investing in open source tools is critical to the health of the web. By bringing the Astro team into Cloudflare, the company aims to ensure that Astro continues to lead in speed, reliability, and developer experience for years to come.
Fred Schott, CEO of The Astro Technology Company, echoed this sentiment, noting that joining Cloudflare will allow Astro to evolve faster and at a much larger scale—while remaining framework-agnostic and usable across hosting providers.
Powering the Modern Web Ecosystem
Astro already serves as a foundation for major platforms such as Webflow and Wix, both of which run on Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud. The timing of the acquisition is also notable, as Astro recently introduced the beta release of Astro 6. This latest version expands support for additional JavaScript runtimes, improves overall performance, and significantly speeds up build times—key enhancements for modern web development teams.
Cloudflare has also reaffirmed its support for the broader Astro ecosystem. Through the Astro Ecosystem Fund, Cloudflare will continue collaborating with industry partners including Netlify, Wix, Webflow, and Sentry to encourage open-source contributions and innovation.
What This Means for Developers and Businesses
For developers, this acquisition delivers confidence and continuity. Astro remains open source, community-focused, and performance-first—now backed by one of the most trusted names in global web infrastructure. For businesses, it means faster websites, improved SEO outcomes, and better user experiences without sacrificing flexibility or scalability.
Together, Cloudflare and Astro are setting a new standard for high-performance web development—one where speed, sustainability, and open collaboration define the future of content-driven websites.
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
