Case Study: Le Monde improves security and time-to-first-byte with Fastly

Le Monde - Customer Case Study

Le Monde, one of France’s leading newspapers, needed to deliver news quickly and reliably as digital readership grew, while facing cyberattacks, traffic spikes, and origin outages. To protect its online edition and maintain a strong user experience, Le Monde turned to Fastly and its CDN, WAF, Bot Management, Compute, and VCL capabilities.

Fastly helped Le Monde deploy its Next-Gen WAF in days, improve bot filtering, and create custom edge logic for caching, decoding, and authentication. As a result, Le Monde gained stronger security and more flexible delivery, while reducing time-to-first-byte to under 100 milliseconds, a measurable performance gain that helped keep readers engaged.

Le Monde

Paul Laleu

Deputy Chief Technology Officer