Case Study: Spiceworks achieves 75% faster global page loads and 40% hosting cost savings with CDNetworks

Spiceworks Improves International Website Performance, Increasing Site Stickiness and Maximizing Ad

Spiceworks, a free desktop IT management app paired with a social online community, relied on an ad-driven model and served more than 1.2 million IT professionals from a single data center in Austin. As its international user base grew (about 40% of members), long-distance latency and regional caching issues caused slow page loads and lower engagement abroad, while the company lacked the engineering resources and budget to build out global data centers.

Spiceworks selected CDNetworks for content and SSL acceleration to deliver content from global points of presence and accelerate secure traffic. The CDN improved global page load times by 75%, cut ongoing site delivery costs by 40%, restored international usage parity with U.S. members, increased ad revenue and user stickiness, and provided scalable delivery and reporting so engineers could focus on product features.

Spiceworks

Francis Sullivan

CTO and co-founder