Case Study: Soum cuts loading times 10x with Scaleflex Cloudimage

SOUM cuts loading times 10x with Scaleflex

SOUM, a Saudi Arabian online marketplace connecting millions of customers with sellers across the MENA region, faced challenges with slow page load times, high image service costs, and inconsistent visual presentation. To address these issues, they turned to the vendor Scaleflex and its Cloudimage solution.

Scaleflex implemented Cloudimage, which optimized SOUM's image weight without sacrificing quality and enabled features like 360° product views. The setup was completed in a single day and integrated with Amazon S3. As a result, SOUM achieved a 10x faster loading time, reducing it from 230ms to 21ms, and realized over 80% in bandwidth cost savings.

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