If you’ve been following The Olympics you know that being very close counts for little, what matters is being The Best. The constant drive to improve even when it comes to details is what makes the professional athletes so inspiring.

We’ve taken that important lesson and applied it to 23 Video and in the spirit of the Danish Olympic Athletes in Vancouver we give you – 23 Video, The Olympic Release:

• Faster Transcoding – One of the unique features of 23 Video has always been fast transcoding, which is why you usually have your video ready to play within a few minutes after uploading a file. With our Olympic Release we’re shaving off about another minute on average from the preparation time.
• Analytics – A constant flow of videos and users had begun to slow down the calculations in our analytics system, so we gave the code a major overhaul and can now give you the fastest 23 Video analytics ever. On average the calculations are now 10 times faster than before the Olympic Release.
• API – We realize that a lot of the interaction with 23 Video goes through the API, which allows other applications to re-use the data from 23 Video. Here performance is key, so we’ve rewritten major parts of the API with this in mind. For example, the optimizations include intelligent caching, which gives you faster integration with 23 Video.
• Player – One of the key features to benefit from the API tweaks is the video player. On average the load time for a video player has decreased by about 200 ms.

As always the upgrade comes without extra cost and is already rolled out as part of 23 Video. We hope it’ll make your daily work experience with 23 Video even more enjoyable. If you’re not using 23 Video yet, there has never been a faster version to try out (In Danish). Don’t just take our word for it. This is what @schaufuss from The Royal Danish Theatre tweeted when he discovered the analytics improvements last week:

“WOW – The Analytics page @23video has TRULY gotten a kick in the butt regarding speed – NICE!”