Case Study: ClickMechanic achieves faster image delivery and easier media management with Cloudinary

ClickMechanic Repairs Media Assets With Cloudinary

ClickMechanic, a London-based online marketplace for automobile mechanics, needed a fast and reliable way to serve large customer and mechanic photos on its website without the hassle of building and maintaining a CDN-based image setup. The company chose Cloudinary as its media-asset manager to handle image optimization, storage, and delivery.

Cloudinary implemented easy-to-integrate Ruby tools that worked with ClickMechanic’s Rails stack and CarrierWave setup, enabling fast uploads, thumbnail creation, and face detection with minimal engineering effort. The results included 25–30 GB of monthly bandwidth savings, much faster load times, and a smoother customer experience, while giving ClickMechanic confidence that Cloudinary would scale with future video needs as well.

ClickMechanic

James Wozniak

Full-Stack Software Developer