Case Study: Gulf News achieves improved web performance and increased peak load capacity with Apica

Optimizing Web Performance for the Atex/Polopoly platform

Gulf News, the UAE’s largest English-language newspaper with about 1.5 million monthly unique users, runs its site on the Atex/Polopoly CMS and faces the typical challenges of a content-rich, geographically distributed audience—varying bandwidths, devices and heavy publishing loads that can degrade Web Performance. To avoid service impacts at go-live and understand true response times and concurrency limits, Gulf News engaged Apica for a comprehensive performance review and testing program.

Apica leveraged its Polopoly expertise to establish a performance baseline, carry out targeted tuning, and verify peak-load capacity and stability. Tests included cache and HTTP-acceleration configurations and bandwidth reassessments; the work significantly reduced response times, increased maximum concurrent capacity, exposed and helped resolve bottlenecks, and produced concrete performance targets for ongoing operations.

Gulf News

Fadi Issa

Service Delivery Manager for Corporate Digital Media