Wednesday, November 25, 2015

BWI: Akamai Solutions Help Practo Achieve 50 Percent Increase in User Traffic in Three Months

 
Source : Akamai
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 11:00AM IST (5:30AM GMT)
 
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Akamai Solutions Help Practo Achieve 50 Percent Increase in User Traffic in Three Months
 
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

  • Delivers a fast and seamless user experience with page load time accelerated up from 9 seconds to 4.5 seconds
  • Enhances user experience across multiple devices, boosts protection against DDoS and web attacks

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in Content Deliver Network (CDN) services, today announced that Practo is using Akamai Solutions to deliver a superior user experience across locations by optimizing and securing the website and increasing accessibility across devices. Akamai Solutions have helped Practo increase conversions by 50 percent in just three months from the time of implementation. 
 
Practo is Asia’s leading healthcare platform and a SaaS (Software-As-A-Service) company headquartered in Bengaluru, India with a growing presence across 50+ cities and 15 countries around the world. The Practo platform currently lists 200,000 healthcare practitioners, 5,000 diagnostic centers and 10,000 hospitals, enabling patients to find best doctors and have a single intelligent healthcare account for their entire family for better healthcare decisions.
 
With plans to further their global expansion, Practo implemented Akamai’s Web Performance, Cloud Security, and Services and Support Solutions, that enhanced the user experience and improved the response time by over 100 percent. Additionally, Practo was able to provide their users with a fast and seamless user experience with an accelerated page load from 9 seconds to 4.5 seconds. This resulted in a 50 percent increase in traffic on Practo.com in three months.  
 
Akamai’s Cloud Security Solutions further helped to secure Practo’s IT infrastructure, protecting the company from DDoS and web attacks that declined significantly over the same period.
 
Additionally, Akamai’s Services and Support Solutions provided Practo with the right insight and analytics in boosting the level of engagement and monitoring of its IT infrastructure.
 
Shashank ND, Founder & CEO, Practo said, “We are building products for the world and have an obsessive focus on our product performance. We need solutions that can support our hyper fast expansion and global scale, while maintaining our industry leading security and privacy protocols. Akamai enabled us to significantly shorten the search and data load time durations, enhance the overall security framework and optimize accessibility across user devices. We are now available to our consumers at all times."
 
 
To read more about how Akamai has helped Practo, refer to the case study: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/our-customers/customer-stories-practo.jsp

About Practo: 

Practo’s mission is to help improve human longevity by simplifying healthcare. We’re leading the way with Practo Search – Asia’s #1 doctor search engine used by millions of patients every month and Practo Ray – the practice management solution of choice for thousands of doctors managing millions of patients and digital healthcare records every year. More information is available on www.practo.com 
 
About Akamai®

As the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, Akamai makes the Internet fast, reliable and secure for its customers. The company's advanced web performance, mobile performance, cloud security and media delivery solutions are revolutionizing how businesses optimize consumer, enterprise and entertainment experiences for any device, anywhere. To learn how Akamai solutions and its team of Internet experts are helping businesses move faster forward, please visit www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on Twitter

 
Media Contact Details

Nidha Adeni, Akamai Technologies, ,+91-9535312375 , nadeni@akamai.com

Rugma Chandran, WE Communications, ,+91-9986673247 , rchandran@waggeneredstrom.com

 

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