Accelerating the world’s leading brands

Weltbild GmbH & Co. KG, a prominent online retailer in Germany, specializes in books, gifts, and decorations. As a key part of the Weltbild D2C Group, which operates more than 15 online shops, Weltbild has always recognized the crucial role of page speed in enhancing the performance of their digital storefronts. With a growing emphasis on delivering an exceptional user experience, Weltbild continually seeks opportunities to optimize their website's page speed.

Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof has a long lasting history and is synonymous for department stores within the German market. However, not just since the pandemic crisis of 2020, Galeria has understood that E-Commerce is an attractive growth market for them. In a recently published interview with a large German newspaper, CEO Miguel Müllenbach has argued that in the past Galeria has been too slow and old-fashioned in this perspective. To tackle these issues, Galeria has identified web performance as a key success factor.

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is one of the largest premium car manufacturers globally. Offering speed, agility, and a premium experience with the help of innovation, which is at the very core of BMW’s identity. However, providing a superb user experience on the web with fast loading times across a multitude of countries is a huge challenge. This involves taking into account numerous stakeholders as well as country-specific technical challenges.

Tamaris is one of the most well-known shoe brands in Europe. As one of the brands by the Wortmann Group, one of the largest shoe retailers in Europe, it's active in over 25 countries. Experienced in ecommerce, Tamaris is aware of the positive impact page speed can have on the user experience, organic search rankings, and conversion rates. To leverage these positive effects of page speed, Tamaris searched for ways to enhance their web performance.

Decathlon is one of the world's leading sporting goods companies with a website that receives a high volume of traffic from customers looking to purchase their products online. Decathlon has always identified page speed as a key metric to drive conversion and revenue. For this, Decathlon Germany has been working with Speed Kit for a number of years to accelerate their website loading times to improve the user experience and increase sales.

Tom Tailor is a leading international fashion brand that offers high-quality and stylish clothing for men, women, and children. The Tom Tailor online shop is built using a state-of-the-art technology stack consisting of SCAYLE (formerly About You Cloud), React, and Next.js. While this setup provides exceptional functionality and flexibility, it also poses challenges in terms of the performance of the server-side rendered HTMLs for hard navigations and the dynamic content of the soft navigations in the single page application (SPA) setup.

Since its founding in 1998 SNIPES has grown from one store to one of the worlds leading sneaker and streetwear platforms. After the last major expansion in 2019 to the United States, SNIPES now runs more than 400 stores in 10 markets. Selling emotional products from various brands like Adidas, Jordan, Karl Kani, Nike or Sean John, the costumer experience is key, not only instore but also in the online shop, that represents a main sales channel and communication factor in the 360° customer centric approach.

Carhartt Work in Progress (WIP) is a licensee of the Carhartt workwear brand from the United States focused on offering street wear styles to subcultures like skating, graffiti, hip hop, or BMX. Carhartt WIP has expanded across Europe and beyond. For their online business, it is particularly important to consistently provide a great customer experience, scalable across millions of users of various markets. Page speed was identified to have significant improvement potentials, especially because of its SEO implications.

Intersport is a leading sports retailer across 66 countries, offering sports equipment, apparel, and footwear for various activities. Intersport's global presence, combined with its passion for an active lifestyle and focus on customer satisfaction, has made the company a trusted name in the industry. To enhance its positive brand image and customer experience, Intersport aimed to boost their web performance as well.

ZWILLING J. A. Henckels AG is one of the largest and oldest manufacturers of kitchen knives and has a long standing tradition of delivering superb quality made in Germany. The product portfolio is complemented by cookware, cutlery as well as kitchenware and BBQ products. While operating thousands of retail stores across the world, the online store has developed into one of the most important sales channels. Delivering consistently great user experience and fast web performance is a big challenge on a global scale, yet it is essential to SEO ranking and commercial success.

Interflora is an international online florist who faces the challenges of ecommerce everyday. The worldwide customer connection requires a high web performance in order to cope with the many requests. Especially traffic peaks like valentines day or mothers day which requires special attention. On such days the highest sales are made and therefore it is absolutely essential to deliver a superb shopping experience.

Sushi Bikes is an e-bike store with focus on modern design, affordability, and sustainability, making green urban mobility accessible to all. Operating on Shopify, Sushi Bikes face increasing demand for their e-bikes and equipment. To optimize the shopping experience and keep customers satisfied, several measures like image optimization have been tried out but a more comprehensive page speed solution is required.