Case Study: California Academy of Sciences achieves reliable high performance for 4,000,000 annual visitors with BlazeMeter

World Famous Museum & Research Site Achieves High Performance For 4,000,000 Users

The California Academy of Sciences, a world‑class museum and research institution in San Francisco that attracts about 4 million visitors a year, runs a media‑rich Drupal website that became slow after a major redesign. With thousands of heavy images and a planned hosting move, the technology team needed comprehensive load testing to identify performance bottlenecks and ensure the site could support average and peak traffic.

Using BlazeMeter, the team ran extensive load tests to find and fix bottlenecks, validate the new hosting configuration, and make performance testing part of their release process. As a result, the Academy improved site responsiveness, gained confidence that updates won’t degrade performance, and can reliably predict how changes will affect user experience.

California Academy of Sciences

Dana Lamb

PMO Manager