Case Study: Riot Games reduces bandwidth usage by 65% with Netlify

Riot Games reduces bandwidth usage by 65% with Netlify

Riot Games, the creator of the globally popular game League of Legends, needed a modern web solution to handle massive traffic spikes and frequent content updates for their player base of over 100 million monthly users. Their previous fragmented tech stack created bottlenecks that compromised developer autonomy and hindered their team of over 100 web developers. They partnered with Netlify to find a platform that could provide scalability, performance, and greater control.

By migrating to the Netlify platform, Riot Games empowered its developers and achieved significant improvements. Website build times decreased from 15-25 minutes to just 3-5 minutes, and project planning that once took weeks was reduced to less than three days. Most notably, Netlify's superior caching enabled Riot Games to reduce bandwidth usage by 65%, dropping consumption from over 200 TB per month to less than 70 TB, resulting in considerable cost savings.

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