Case Study

El Español

El Español is a Spanish daily newspaper for general circulation founded in 2015. It is one of the leading media outlets in Spain, with nearly 2.2 million daily visitors (data from Comscore, September 2022).

FAVORITE FEATURES

  • Logs in real time
  • Paywall
  • Monitoring

WHY TRANSPARENT EDGE

  • Friendly technical support, with no intermediaries/li>
  • Speed
  • Performance
  • Ease of use
  • European DNA
“HAVING TRANSPARENT EDGE AS EL ESPAÑOL’S CDN GIVES US THE PEACE OF MIND OF KNOWING WE’RE COVERED IF ANY PROBLEMS ARISE.”
Sergio Sanz del Monte, CTO of El Español.

El Español was founded in 2015 by journalist Pedro J. Ramírez as an exclusively online newspaper. Committing to this single format for a new media outlet aspiring to become a benchmark in Spanish journalism created the need to ensure fast content delivery and continuous uninterrupted service. El Español was looking for a CDN it could count on, with technical support to assist in implementing new developments that would always be there to guarantee service continuity under any circumstance.

“EL ESPAÑOL WAS BORN WITH TRANSPARENT EDGE, AND SINCE THEN TRANSPARENT EDGE HAS BEEN RIGHT THERE WITH US AS WE’VE GROWN, GIVING US GREAT CONFIDENCE.”

Sergio Sanz del Monte, CTO of El Español.

REAL SUPPORT

Support is essential for a media outlet of the caliber of El Español because any problem affecting content delivery could negatively impact its reputation and revenue. Hence the need for real support provided by engineers who know how to attend to specific needs with personalized service to find the right solutions at every moment.

“TRANSPARENT EDGE’S ENGINEERS ARE VERY GOOD. THEY ARE EXPERTS WHO SOLVE PROBLEMS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. PLUS, THEIR BEING IN SPAIN MEANS THEY CAN HELP US IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE AND ON OUR TIMETABLE, MAKING IT SO MUCH EASIER TO COMMUNICATE AND RESOLVE ANY INCIDENTS.”

Sergio Sanz del Monte, CTO of El Español.

LOAD SPEED AND GOOD USER EXPERIENCE

A media outlet as important as El Español needs to ensure a good user experience for its readers on any device, but especially on smartphones which are the priority traffic source. It also needs to have good SEO positioning. So the content delivery speed and low latencies of Transparent Edge’s next-generation CDN are essential elements for the periodical. Getting a good score on Google’s Core Web Vitals is fundamental for good organic positioning results.

“TRANSPARENT EDGE’S CDN IS ESSENTIAL TO US PASSING OUR CORE WEB VITALS, AND WE DO SO WITH FLYING COLORS IN ALL THE PERFORMANCE METRICS (TTFB, LCP, FCP).”

Sergio Sanz del Monte, CTO of El Español.

CONTROL AND VISIBILITY

The data behind the traffic that passes through Transparent Edge’s servers are very valuable for El Español, which uses our CDN dashboard as a tool for making decisions in real time. From the control panel, it monitors traffic and compiles the primary CDN metrics in real time: requests per second, attacks per second, percentage of requests accessing content from the closest server, etc. El Español also appreciates the dashboard’s real-time access to logs, enabling a better understanding of how the service is performing.

“THANKS TO TRANSPARENT’S DASHBOARD WE CAN PROVIDE OUR SERVICE AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT IF WE NEED SOMETHING MORE COMPLICATED OR PERSONALIZED, THEIR TEAM IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO HELP US TOWARD THE SOLUTION.”

Sergio Sanz del Monte, CTO of El Español.

EUROPEAN DNA

Transparent Edge being a Spanish company is ultimately a key factor for El Español, which values having its Internet speed and security in European hands.

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