Case Study: imgix achieves faster, more reliable visual media delivery with Fastly

imgix provides high-quality visual media experiences for customers powered by Fastly

imgix, a leading visual media platform serving more than 8 billion images a day, needed to deliver optimized images and videos quickly and reliably for customers like Google, Re/Max, Unsplash, and Porsche. To meet that challenge, imgix relied on Fastly and its CDN, shielding, and real-time observability services to keep assets loading fast while reducing strain on its internal teams.

Fastly helped imgix cache media at edge nodes worldwide, delivering images in an average of 49.97 ms and cutting requests to origin by 10–12%, which also reduced infrastructure costs. With Fastly, imgix improved request results by up to 89.1%, gained accurate real-time logging for billing and troubleshooting, and benefited from 99.99%+ uptime and responsive support.

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Amanda Hassoun

Site Reliability Engineer