Case Study: Dunelm achieves faster, more secure e-commerce performance with Fastly

Dunelm’s ecommerce stack, optimized to be 978% faster and more secure with Fastly

Dunelm, the UK’s leading home furnishings retailer, needed a CDN partner that could keep pace with its e-commerce modernization and rapid digital transformation. Its previous provider couldn’t deliver the speed, flexibility, or service required, so Dunelm turned to Fastly for support across web and mobile storefronts, security, and faster site updates at scale.

With Fastly CDN, Next-Gen WAF, Bot Management, and Image Optimizer, Dunelm improved performance and security while embedding configurations into Terraform-based infrastructure as code. Fastly delivered a 978% improvement in homepage speed, a 23% increase in basket performance, and a jump from 1 deployment per month to 200, while also helping protect customer data and enable more frequent releases.

Dunelm

Tom Hayman

Head of Platform Engineering