How Le Monde Delivers 59ms Performance & Stops AI Scrapers at the Edge

Le Monde uses Fastly to deliver personalized content at the edge, handle massive traffic spikes, and protect its 3 million-article archive from unauthorized AI crawlers. In this customer story, Le Monde CTO Paul Laleu shares how the publisher: • Achieved 58.98ms average response times during major election traffic • Served 21M visits and 70M pageviews in a single day without scaling origin • Uses Fastly Compute for real-time edge personalization • Blocks approximately 100M malicious requests monthly with Next-Gen WAF • Uses AI Bot Management and ContentGuard to control access to its valuable archive Watch how Le Monde is using the edge to deliver fast, personalized experiences while protecting its journalism in the age of AI. Learn more about Fastly Edge Compute: https://www.fastly.com/products/edge-compute