Case Study: The Sport Review achieves 50% faster performance and thousands of concurrent connections with Kinsta

Scaling for Thousands of Concurrent Connections

The Sport Review, a British sports news website, needed a more professional, WordPress-focused hosting platform to improve speed and reliability for its high-volume, mobile-heavy audience. After outgrowing an unmanaged host, the team turned to Kinsta for a solution better suited to WordPress performance and support.

Kinsta migrated The Sport Review quickly and optimized the site at the database and server level, including moving from MyISAM to InnoDB, upgrading from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7, and fine-tuning caching. As a result, The Sport Review saw a 50% speed increase, the platform could handle thousands of concurrent connections, and the site handled a record day of 470,000 pageviews and 260,000 unique users with no downtime.

The Sport Review

Martin Caparrotta

The Sport Review