Case Study: First Things achieves 94% faster subscriber load times with Leaky Paywall and BigScoots

First Things achieves 94% faster subscriber load times with Leaky Paywall

First Things, a magazine focused on religion and culture, faced significant performance challenges after implementing the Leaky Paywall subscription platform on WordPress. Their previous hosting provider could not effectively cache content for logged-in subscribers, resulting in slow load times, errors during traffic spikes, and a poor user experience that threatened their subscription revenue.

Leaky Paywall introduced First Things to BigScoots, which engineered a custom solution to cache content for logged-in users using Cloudflare Enterprise CDN. This approach, tailored for dynamic publishers, resulted in a 94% improvement in homepage load times for subscribers. The migration also provided greater reliability during traffic spikes, a faster editorial workflow, and more powerful hardware at a comparable cost, solidifying a successful technical partnership.

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