Europa Press
Europa Press is Spain’s leading private, multimedia news agency. Every day, nearly 3,000 subscribers —including media outlets, public administrations, companies, and organizations— rely on its services to access real-time, verified, and up-to-date content: independent, high-quality information in text, photo, video, and audio.
Ensuring fast load times to improve user experience and managing traffic spikes during breaking news or special events are among its main challenges in protecting and optimizing website performance. The company has found in Transparent Edge the ideal technology partner to deliver content distribution that is agile, secure, and truly real-time.
Europa Press has been using our delivery service since 2018 and our cybersecurity suite, Perimetrical, since 2023.
Favorite features
- Instant invalidations (by tag or URL)
- Integrated WAF with anomaly detection
- Real-time analytics
Why Transparent Edge
- Versatility of its Varnish-based platform
- Close, expert, and direct technical support
- Deep understanding of media sector challenges
Europa Press has unified its web content delivery strategy on the Transparent Edge platform, with the aim of simplifying its technical operations, improving the user experience, and strengthening the security of its portals and associated services.
One of the main benefits identified by the Europa Press technical team is the reduction in operational complexity by centralizing content delivery management, portal security, and real-time analysis of web performance and traffic in a single interface. This has eliminated dependencies between tools, facilitated monitoring, and reduced incident response times.
“Having unified delivery, security, and analytics reduces operational complexity and eliminates “jumps” between tools.
With a single dashboard, we get a complete picture of performance and threats, and when any questions arise, the support team responds within minutes, a critical advantage in a 24/7 business.”
POWER AND VERSATILITY OF THE PLATFORM
The Transparent Edge platform optimizes metrics such as TTFB, LCP, and Core Web Vitals, absorbs spikes without impacting origin servers, and offers immediate invalidations for real-time content updates. This last capability is vital not only for Europa Press portals but also for widgets served on third-party websites, ensuring content is updated within seconds, even during special events and elections.
The ability to define custom caching policies using VCL (Varnish Configuration Language) allows for the implementation of customized solutions to meet any integration need.
“The flexibility of VCL gives us granular control that is impossible to replicate on more closed platforms.”
SECURITY AT THE EDGE
Applying cybersecurity at the edge stops threats before they reach the source infrastructure, reducing server load and improving service availability. Traffic is analyzed and filtered at the point closest to the user, minimizing protection-related latency and accelerating the response to attacks.
Transparent Edge technology, designed according to this model, guarantees the continuity of Europa Press’s service against DDoS attacks, intrusions, and malicious bots, especially in situations of anomalous traffic or automated attacks.
“TransparentEdge’s security suite blocks the vast majority of threats at the edge, before they reach our infrastructure, keeping our websites secure and available at all times.”
SPECIALIZED SUPPORT AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE MEDIA SECTOR
Agility is key in the media sector, and having a proactive support team capable of providing solutions in record time greatly facilitates this immediacy. In fact, the technical expertise and closeness of the Transparent Edge team was one of the most valued aspects by the Systems Director of Europa Press.
Added to this is the fact that the technology company is European, which not only guarantees GDPR compliance but also facilitates communication due to time and language differences, resulting in better coordination of operations and incident resolution.
“The Transparent Edge team’s deep understanding of the media industry’s challenges ensures swift resolution and strategic collaboration, not just with suppliers.”