Case Study: Key Champions smooths giveaway traffic with Queue-it

Key Champions - Customer Case Study

Key Champions is an online Steam CD key giveaway service that saw massive traffic spikes during popular giveaways, with visits jumping from 1,000 to 4,000 people per minute. Because the site was still under development and couldn’t handle the load, it slowed down and even crashed during the event.

To solve this, Key Champions implemented Queue-it’s virtual waiting room system to slow traffic and keep the site stable. Queue-it was integrated quickly with a simple JavaScript snippet, and during the two giveaway days about 50,000 people were queued with average waits of 10 to 20 minutes, helping Key Champions smooth traffic, test capacity, and improve performance.