Case Study: lastminute.com stops bot attacks across 800 sites and boosts performance with Cloudflare

lastminute.com Trusts Cloudflare to Stop Bots Across Its 800 Sites

lastminute.com is a global travel company operating a portfolio of brands across 800 websites in 40 countries, serving over 60 million unique visitors a month. The business was being overwhelmed by bot traffic and scrapers that skewed analytics and stole pricing and availability data, while relying on a third‑party CDN security layer that added complexity and made attacks hard to detect and mitigate.

By consolidating security and performance on Cloudflare and using its API to automate migration, lastminute.com gained clear visibility and control over attacks and improved site performance. Cloudflare now blocks about 200,000 malicious requests per month, the sites load on average 20% faster, and the company reports lower total cost of ownership and easier management.

Lastminute.com

Lorenzo Girardi

Site Reliability Engineer Manager