Case Study: King Jouet handles seasonal traffic surges cost-effectively with CDNetworks

King Jouet Upgrades Its Website to Handle Seasonal Surges In Demand, Thanks to Cdnetworks

King Jouet is a French toy retailer founded in 1989 with over 200 stores and a busy e-commerce site that sees traffic spike eightfold in November–December (the first ten days of December generate as much sales as January). Facing thousands of simultaneous visitors during the holiday rush, the company needed a way to handle seasonal demand without investing in costly spare IT capacity.

King Jouet put images, stylesheets and HTML into CDNetworks’ CDN (with seven-day caching) so CDNetworks’ infrastructure could absorb the traffic peaks. The result: seamless handling of holiday surges, stable and reliable site performance, major cost savings (CDNetworks proved four to five times better value than the previous CDN) and no need to build extra servers.

King Jouet

Thierry Bourgade

Website Project Manager