Case Study: Chinatimes.com achieves 143% traffic surge support and 50% faster page loads with Akamai Technologies

Akamai helped Chinatimes.com support a 143% increase of unique site visitors in a single day

Chinatimes.com, a leading Taiwanese online news portal serving domestic and global Chinese audiences, needed to deliver real-time news and rich media reliably despite widely varying Internet speeds and massive traffic spikes during breaking events. Slow page loads were driving readers away, so the site required a solution that could maintain fast, consistent delivery worldwide without adding costly infrastructure.

By adopting Akamai Web Performance Solutions (CDN and optimization), Chinatimes.com halved page-load time from about 6 seconds to 3 seconds, supported a record 17 million page views in one day (a 143% spike over its 7 million average), and achieved a 130% increase in daily visitors—expanding global reach and handling breaking-news surges with no additional infrastructure cost.

Chinatimes.com

George Liu

Editor in Chief