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Case Study: Envato cuts flagship response times ~50% with Cloudflare

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
Envato
Industry
Media & Marketplace
Challenge
Securing high-traffic marketplaces and offloading origin traffic
Headline result
~50% lower response times over five years

Key results

~50%
Decrease in response times on flagship sites
over a period of five years
20 TB+
Data offloaded from origin servers monthly

The challenge

Envato, a media and creative-marketplace company serving around two million customers per year, had suffered denial-of-service and extortion attacks, including a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack that took the entire platform down for a number of hours.

The solution

Envato partnered with Cloudflare to secure and accelerate its web applications, offloading traffic from its origin servers and using Workers to reduce data leakage and strengthen its security posture.

Cloudflare takes care of the complex and tedious stuff required to secure and run our web applications, allowing us to focus on what we really care about — delivering better products and experiences to our customers.

RS
Ross Simpson
Senior Principal Security Engineer, Envato

The results, in context

Over five years with Cloudflare, Envato saw response times on its flagship sites decrease by roughly 50%. The company now offloads more than 20 terabytes of data from its origin servers each month.

Products used

Cloudflare Cloudflare CDNCloudflare Cloudflare Workers