Case Study: Historic Futures achieves 500%+ faster global application performance and 80% infrastructure cost savings with CDNetworks Dynamic Web Acceleration

Historic Futures Solidifies Its Customer Base by Improving Average Global Application Performance Over 500% While Saving 80% on Infrastructure

Historic Futures, a UK-based supply-chain traceability specialist, runs the String application used by hundreds of brands and suppliers (including Gap, Levi’s, Tesco and Wal‑Mart) to capture and visualise provenance data. String’s users in regions such as China, India and Bangladesh faced severe latency—login times of 25–30 seconds and unusable performance—while HF lacked the budget and footprint to build out global data centres.

HF deployed CDNetworks’ Dynamic Web Acceleration and China Acceleration to deliver the application from a global CDN, immediately improving performance by 300–1,000% in problem regions and reducing China login times from 25 seconds to 3 seconds. The move cut infrastructure spend by about 80%, eliminated customer complaints, unlocked new business opportunities, and allowed HF to develop a richer String application for expanded adoption.

Historic Futures

Simon Warrick

Chief Technology Officer