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Hostelworld.com Reduces Global Webpage Loading Time by 43% with CDNetworks

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Applicable Functions	Business Operation Sales & Marketing
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Cybersecurity Services
Challenge	As Hostelworld’s global footprint rapidly grew in terms of its customers and properties, especially in the Asia Pacific region, it found that the performance of its website outside of Western Europe was becoming increasingly important. It soon became clear that users outside of Western Europe were often experiencing a lag effect when viewing the content online. With Hostelworld’s main website being hosted in its primary data centres in Dublin and London, customers situated further afield didn’t experience the same level of site performance. In order to deliver the best possible experience for its global customers, Hostelworld needed to ensure that its website performed equally as fast across the various continents and devices. Read More
About Customer	Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Hostelworld is the global leading hostel-focused accommodation platform. Launched in 1999, when a hostel owner and IT entrepreneur identified a niche in the market, it is the flagship brand within Hostelworld Group. The site’s main focus falls on hostels boasting over 33,000 properties in more than 170 countries. In addition, the Hostelworld platform powers Lonelyplanet.com, Tripadvisor.com, Travellerspoint.com, and 1000s more websites. Read More
Solution	After carrying out extensive research, Hostelworld chose CDNetworks’ Content Acceleration and SSL to deliver the website globally. Once deployed, 93% of the traffic was easily offloaded to CDNetworks, to ensure the smooth delivery of website pages in countries such as India, Australia, Brazil and Russia. CDNetworks accelerates everything from graphics, java scripts and style sheets through to payment processes. CDNetworks SSL ensures that the overhead of establishing a SSL session does not affect Hostelworld’s website performance. By establishing SSL sessions closer to the customer, the multiple round trip communications that need to occur between the customer and server happen quicker without any perceivable delays. Hostelworld is also currently in the process of deploying CDNetworks’ China Acceleration solution and tapping into the content distribution infrastructure across 30 PoPs in mainland China. Read More Log in to view content
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Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Sales & Marketing

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Cybersecurity Services

Challenge

As Hostelworld’s global footprint rapidly grew in terms of its customers and properties, especially in the Asia Pacific region, it found that the performance of its website outside of Western Europe was becoming increasingly important. It soon became clear that users outside of Western Europe were often experiencing a lag effect when viewing the content online. With Hostelworld’s main website being hosted in its primary data centres in Dublin and London, customers situated further afield didn’t experience the same level of site performance. In order to deliver the best possible experience for its global customers, Hostelworld needed to ensure that its website performed equally as fast across the various continents and devices.

About Customer

Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Hostelworld is the global leading hostel-focused accommodation platform. Launched in 1999, when a hostel owner and IT entrepreneur identified a niche in the market, it is the flagship brand within Hostelworld Group. The site’s main focus falls on hostels boasting over 33,000 properties in more than 170 countries. In addition, the Hostelworld platform powers Lonelyplanet.com, Tripadvisor.com, Travellerspoint.com, and 1000s more websites.

Solution

After carrying out extensive research, Hostelworld chose CDNetworks’ Content Acceleration and SSL to deliver the website globally. Once deployed, 93% of the traffic was easily offloaded to CDNetworks, to ensure the smooth delivery of website pages in countries such as India, Australia, Brazil and Russia. CDNetworks accelerates everything from graphics, java scripts and style sheets through to payment processes. CDNetworks SSL ensures that the overhead of establishing a SSL session does not affect Hostelworld’s website performance. By establishing SSL sessions closer to the customer, the multiple round trip communications that need to occur between the customer and server happen quicker without any perceivable delays. Hostelworld is also currently in the process of deploying CDNetworks’ China Acceleration solution and tapping into the content distribution infrastructure across 30 PoPs in mainland China.

Impact #1	Dramatic reduction in website download times to 2.6 seconds per page, which equates to a 43% decrease in waiting times for the end-user
Impact #2	Offloading 93% of website traffic to CDNetworks
Impact #3	Ensuring the smooth delivery of website pages in countries such as India, Australia, Brazil and Russia

Impact #1

Dramatic reduction in website download times to 2.6 seconds per page, which equates to a 43% decrease in waiting times for the end-user

Impact #2

Offloading 93% of website traffic to CDNetworks

Impact #3

Ensuring the smooth delivery of website pages in countries such as India, Australia, Brazil and Russia

Benefit #1	43% decrease in website download times
Benefit #2	93% of website traffic offloaded to CDNetworks

Benefit #1

43% decrease in website download times

Benefit #2

93% of website traffic offloaded to CDNetworks

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Hostelworld.com Reduces Global Webpage Loading Time by 43% with CDNetworks

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