# Cloudflare prototypes cache transcoding to increase effective storage

_Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 8:59 AM EDT · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Cloudflare said it has prototyped Cache Transcoding, which stores eligible cache assets as Zstandard-compressed data inside its Pingora proxy. In controlled testing, eligible assets averaged one-third of their original on-disk size, while the company estimated an extra CPU cost of a few percent under its traffic and reuse assumptions. The prototype targets uncompressed, compressible 200 OK text responses of at least 4 KiB; media, precompressed content, range requests and unknown-length bodies are excluded.

## Sources

- [The Cloudflare Blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cache-transcoding/)

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