Case Study: Forum One withstands a 250,000-visitor traffic spike with CA BlazeMeter

The White House’s climate change website withstands traffic spike of 250,000 visitors with BlazeMeter

Forum One, an 80-person digital agency, faced the significant challenge of ensuring the White House's newly redesigned GlobalChange.gov website could withstand a massive, anticipated traffic surge. Following the problematic launch of HealthCare.gov, the administration required absolute confidence that the site would not crash during the release of a major climate assessment. Forum One turned to Broadcom and its CA BlazeMeter service to perform critical load testing.

Using Broadcom's CA BlazeMeter, the team executed cloud-based tests that identified and helped resolve performance bottlenecks, such as increasing the memory limit for their Varnish caching solution. This preparation ensured a completely problem-free launch. The website successfully handled 250,000 unique visitors in the first 48 hours and continued to support over 1,000 daily users, earning praise from the White House and validating the agency's technical approach.

Forum One

William Hurley

Technical Development Manager