Elections boost the web traffic

Through Transparent Edge’s CDN pass over 4500 websites, some of them belong to the main newspapers and digital communication outlets in Spain, such as El Confidencial, El Español or Europa Press, among others.

The data based on the requests that visitors made, indicates the interest that the elections generated. From the moment the polling was open yesterday at 9am, until noon today, there’s been a register of 40% additional requests compared to last year around the same dates. 

The highest request peaks were received yesterday right at the end of the day, and first thing in the morning today. These two periods combined account for half the requests detected throughout the entire day. 

If we measure by device, 60% of the users accessed from a mobile phone: 42% via an Android and 18% through an iPhone.  

HOW DO THE MEDIA OUTLETS GUARANTEE THE SITE AVAILABILITY WITH THE TRAFFIC THAT OCCURS DURING A SITUATION LIKE THIS?

Managing hundreds of thousands (even millions!) of users, like today’s media needs to do, is always a challenge. Particularly on days like these, where the usual traffic is multiplied due to a specific event.

To have one or several next-generation CDNs gives you more capacity to distribute your content in an agile and quick way, so that the user experience is not affected, and also guaranteeing security for the user during the process. 
El Confidencial and El Español trust in Transparent Edge’s CDN to guarantee the content delivery. Click here to know what their technology and systems teams value the most.