Case Study: Best Buy achieves 80% faster dynamic content and 20% faster shopping cart transactions with Akamai Technologies

Akamai Helps Best Buy Improve Performance Of Dynamic Content And Applications By 80% And Shopping Cart Transactions By 20%

Best Buy, a Fortune 100 specialty retailer with hundreds of stores and a high-traffic ecommerce site, needed to ensure a fast, consistent online shopping experience—especially during peak seasons—while protecting its brand and avoiding costly infrastructure expansion. The company faced performance issues delivering dynamic content and web applications and sought better shopping-cart responsiveness and reliable availability under heavy, variable traffic.

By adopting Akamai’s cloud delivery services, Best Buy accelerated dynamic content and applications by 80% and sped shopping-cart transactions by 20%, while supporting traffic spikes up to 470% over normal loads. The solution reduced bandwidth by 52%, helped drive roughly 35% year-over-year online revenue growth, and delivered a more consistent, available customer experience without costly infrastructure buildout.

Best Buy

Steve Trimbo

Director of Online Operations, Best Buy