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Languages: PHP Frameworks: CodeIgniter

Laser focus on performance problems.

SpanishDict uses New Relic's integrated tool set to get a complete picture of application performance including 3rd party software. SpanishDict is the world’s largest Spanish-English Dictionary, translation, and language learning website offering a 300,000 word dictionary, 25,000 multimedia flashcard sets, 90 videos, 100,000 Q&A database, and a language translator. With 5 Million visitors per month over 45 Million visitors in 2011, high performance is a must – to keep language learner actively involved and focused.

"New Relic offers an integrated tool set that does an incredible job of monitoring and organizing performance data….Impressive!" – Chris Cummings CEO – SpanishDict

Challenges

  • Manage the infrastructure for 5 million site users/month
  • Provide high performance for on-demand video and multimedia flashcard sets
  • See problems across entire web app - front-end, application, data base

Solution

  • Deliver 24x7 monitoring for all aspects of site via single integrated tool
  • Pinpoint and prioritize performance problems laser focus (line of code)
  • See real performance from real data rather than the estimates seen by other products

Results

  • Prioritize code optimization for end-user experience and staff productivity
  • Identify 3rd party software services bottlenecks (and produce temporary solutions) for improved end-to-end user experience
  • Single APM tool organizes and present performance data in priority and actionable sequence
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