Case Study: Squarespace achieves Super Bowl-scale performance with SOASTA

SOASTA Lets Squarespace Rest Easy for the Big Game

Squarespace needed to ensure its ambitious Super Bowl XLIX campaign, “Dreaming with Jeff,” could handle massive traffic while showcasing a full-feature website with video, music, downloads, and transactions. The company partnered with SOASTA and its CloudTest platform to simulate real-user behavior at scale and avoid any performance issues during one of the biggest advertising events of the year.

SOASTA quickly built customized test scripts and helped Squarespace uncover a load balancer throughput issue at 135,000 virtual users. After moving large assets to a CDN and upgrading network and data center capacity, Squarespace re-tested up to 350,000 virtual users and 165,000 requests per second. With SOASTA, Squarespace handled about 30,000 requests per second at peak during the Super Bowl and launched successfully.

SquareSpace

Franklin Angulo

Engineering Manager