Vercel published Black Friday performance data showing its platform served 86.7 billion requests with peak throughput of 1.9M requests/second. A case study with Helly Hansen demonstrated concrete results: after migrating from client-heavy rendering to Vercel's CDN, the customer achieved 80% YoY revenue increase, 2x higher conversion rates, and Core Web Vitals improvements from red to green.
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Just another (Black) Friday
Vercel's CDN infrastructure handled 86.7B Black Friday requests (1.9M peak req/s), with Helly Hansen case study proving edge-first migration drives 80% revenue growth and 2x conversion lift.
Friday, April 17, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Vercel BlogBY sys://pipeline
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