Case Study: YPO achieves 33% improvement in site speed and uptime with Cloudflare

YPO - Customer Case Study

YPO is a publicly owned UK organisation that supplies products and services to schools, local authorities, charities and emergency services. After migrating its e‑commerce platform to the cloud, YPO began seeing anomalous foreign traffic and wanted to protect customer trust by ensuring strong uptime, availability and security; they therefore looked for an easy‑to‑deploy web application firewall because other third‑party options were overly complex.

YPO chose Cloudflare for its simple onboarding, scale and threat intelligence. Deploying Cloudflare’s WAF and performance features (Brotli, Auto Minify, Polish, Mirage) let them cache ~80% of traffic, cut average page loads by about 50%, boost YSlow scores from the low 70s to the mid‑90s, and achieve roughly a 33% improvement in site speed/uptime and a ~30% faster mobile load time on 3G—improving user experience and safeguarding customer trust.

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Gavin Rimmington

Head of Business Change and IT