Case Study: Fast Company achieves 60% faster page loads and real-time content updates with Fastly

Fast Company - Customer Case Study

Fast Company, a leading progressive business media brand spanning FastCompany.com and its Co.Design/Co.Exist/Co.Create/Co.Labs properties, needed a CDN that could keep up with its fast-paced, image-heavy editorial workflow. The team faced frequent content changes and image updates, costly downtime during outages, and the need to scale without adding origin servers, while also supporting personalization and security for logged-in users.

Fastly provided Instant Purge, custom VCL, API-driven control, real-time log streaming, stale-if-error, TLS and edge features like ESI, enabling immediate cache updates, API caching, and fine-grained behavior at the edge. The result: page load times dropped ~60%, static asset cache hit rates reached 98–99%, fewer origin servers were required, downtime effects were minimized, deployments became real-time, and Fast Company gained better monitoring and expert support.

Fast Company

Harry Guillermo

Senior Developer