Key Impacts
- Offloads origin by 40%
- Improves page display time by 23%
- Supports 150% of current peak traffic loads
- Reduced servers by 50%
- Reduced bandwidth requirements by 40%
- Lowered monthly operating costs by 65%
- Avoided infrastructure costs
Founded in 1998, CarDomain Network operates the largest online community for auto enthusiasts. With more than 1.8 million members and 3.8 million monthly site visitors, CarDomain.com is the ultimate destination site for people who want to share their passion for cars with others. The site features over 2,000 auto-related discussion groups, thousands of videos submitted by members, a daily blog, and over 550,000 custom ride pages. CarDomain.com is essentially a framework for user-generated content, the bulk of which is custom ride pages-including images and video-created by members. Over 70 million pages and billionmember images are served each month.
"With the Akamai solution, we have reduced our bandwidth by about 40%. That in turn reduced our hosting requirements and monthly bill. Because Akamai reduces the load on our image servers, we will be able to reduce those servers by more than 50%, once again allowing us to lower our monthly operating costs. Akamai offloads our servers by 40%, which results in faster content delivery. In fact, average page display time is 23% faster. This improves the user experience and lowers the likelihood of abandonment. Akamai enables us to comfortably support 150% of our current peak traffic loads-and we don't have to add any hardware to support it," says Tuffendsam. With the Akamai solution in place, CarDomain can confidently pursue its strategic vision. "We are constantly updating our platform to better serve site visitors. We view the Akamai platform as an extension of our architecture. It provides us with a stable foundation to support the aggressive release of new features, such as enhanced video capabilities. The Akamai platform and solution allows us to do more than we could in the past," concludes Tuffendsam.
"Akamai offloads our servers by 40%, which results in faster content delivery. This in turn improves the user experience and lowers the likelihood of abandonment."
- Brad Tuffendsam, IT Operations Manager, CarDomain
