Case Study: Gannett achieves faster publishing and better performance with Fastly

Gannett - Customer Case Study

Gannett, the diversified media company behind USA TODAY NETWORK and local news brands, needed to publish breaking news faster and handle traffic spikes without sacrificing performance. Before working with Fastly, its content delivery setup could take 45–90 seconds to purge and publish updates, making it harder to be first in search and capture audience traffic.

Fastly’s edge cloud platform, including Instant Purge, load balancing, Image Optimizer, and WAF, helped Gannett push content live globally in about 150 milliseconds, cut egress costs by about 35%, and reduce config changes from more than an hour to under five seconds. With Fastly, Gannett also improved site speed, reached a 0.48-second Largest Contentful Paint on USA Today, and quickly launched new initiatives like supportlocal.usatoday.com, which drew more than 90,000 daily page views within days.

Gannett

Bilal Fazal

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team Manager