When the Lights Are On, Reliability Is Everything
When the Lights Are On, Reliability Is Everything
College football playoff games are not forgiving moments for technology teams.
Traffic spikes fast. Fans refresh constantly. Media is watching. There is no grace period and no second chance to get it right.
This past Monday during the College Football Playoffs was one of those moments. National attention, sustained traffic surges, and nonstop fan engagement put digital platforms under real pressure from kickoff through postgame.
That is not a hypothetical stress test. That is the real thing.
What Fans Experience Is What Matters
When demand is at its highest, fans do not think about vendors or infrastructure. They just expect things to work. Pages load. Apps respond. Content is there when they want it.
In those moments, technology either quietly does its job or becomes part of the conversation.
This week reinforced why reliability matters. High traffic revealed which platforms were truly built for moments like this and which ones struggled under pressure.
For the teams running on WMT, the experience was seamless.
Proof From One of the Biggest Nights of the Season
During the National Championship window, Miami’s WMT powered digital platforms delivered one of the highest traffic days in the history of our partnership.
And they did it without disruption.
Here is what that looked like in real terms:
- 585,756 page views during the championship window, demonstrating platform stability under peak traffic volume
- 1.39 million total events fired, reflecting sustained, active fan engagement
- 83,940 first time visitors, marking a significant influx of new fans into the experience how many new fans were entering the experience
- 84 percent engagement rate, maintained even under peak demand
- 4.29 pages per session and 10.25 events per session, indicating fans were not just arriving, but actively exploring
Fans refreshed. Fans scrolled. Fans engaged. And the platform held steady throughout it all.
No slowdowns. No outages. No interruptions to the fan experience.
Built for Pressure, Not Just Traffic
Anyone can perform on a normal day.
Enterprise grade technology is proven when everything hits at once. Live games. Breaking moments. Peak concurrency. National attention.
At WMT, we assume those moments will happen. We design for them. We test for them. And we operate with the expectation that failure is not an option.
That includes not just performance, but trust and security. WMT is SOC 2 compliant, which means our infrastructure, data handling, and operational processes meet rigorous standards for security, availability, and reliability. The same discipline that protects sensitive data is what allows our platform to stay stable when demand spikes.
Because when fans show up, the technology has one job. Stay out of the way.
The Standard We Hold Ourselves To
Fans deserve digital experiences that work when excitement is highest. Athletic departments deserve platforms they can trust on their biggest stages. And teams deserve technology partners who prepare for the moments that cannot fail.
That is the work we do every day at WMT.
If you want to learn more about how WMT supports enterprise grade digital experiences for sports and live events, visit https://wmt.digital.
Because the best technology stories are the ones fans never have to think about.