Case Study: Udacity achieves lightning-fast classroom performance in China with Cloudflare

Udacity slashes classroom asset load times from 10 seconds to 500 milliseconds with Cloudflare

Udacity, an online education company, faced significant challenges when expanding into China. Their US-based classroom content was slow to load due to internet regulations and throttling, with asset load times taking several minutes. To avoid losing customers, they needed a solution to improve performance. They turned to vendor Cloudflare and its China Network to address this issue.

By leveraging Cloudflare's CDN with data centers in mainland China, Udacity achieved a dramatic performance improvement. Asset load times dropped from as high as ten seconds to just 500 milliseconds. The vendor Cloudflare also provided fine-grained control through Cloudflare Rules, which helped Udacity's engineers easily troubleshoot issues. This resulted in a seamless learning experience for students in China.

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