Case Study: Movietickets.com achieves 300,000+ concurrent-user capacity and fast performance with BlazeMeter

Why Star Wars Mania Didn’t Bring Down Movietickets.com

Movietickets.com, a global leader in online movie ticketing, faced a major challenge when record-breaking pre-sales for Star Wars threatened to overwhelm ticketing sites. With two months before the premiere the company migrated its infrastructure to AWS but needed to validate that the new cloud environment could handle massive traffic spikes without degrading customer experience.

Using BlazeMeter (alongside JMeter), the team ran progressive load tests starting at 30,000 concurrent users and scaling to more than 300,000. The site handled opening-weekend demand, served pages quickly, preserved revenue and reputation, and now benefits from AWS scalability and ongoing BlazeMeter testing to ensure future changes don’t impact performance.

Movietickets.com

Craig Lefkowitz

Director of Information Systems