About the project

About EPIISOD

EPIISOD is a purpose-built student accommodation brand in Macquarie Park, Sydney, a 4-minute walk from Macquarie University and its train station. 

Brought to students by Centurion Corporation, EPIISOD offers studios and shared apartments, flexible lease lengths from short stays to 52 weeks, a 360 virtual tour, and online room search by check-in date.

The website is the front door for students and parents comparing options from around the world. It runs on a modern, headless setup. The site loads third-party services, including Facebook Pixel and Google reCAPTCHA.

The challenge

What visitors in China saw in China:

Pages rendered visually broken, and the login feature was unusable. 

A student or parent researching rooms from China could not see the site as designed, and could not sign in to continue.

This pattern is common for sites built on website built with several third-party dependencies. 

Nothing was wrong with the site itself. 

It was built for a global audience, and parts of its code relied on services and scripts behind network conditions in China.

Why EPIISOD chose Chinafy

EPIISOD wanted to keep the global site exactly as built. A rebuild or a move to onshore hosting meant new infrastructure, a China-specific site to maintain, and a longer timeline. 

Chinafy works as an optimization layer alongside the existing site, so the global experience stays untouched.

The Chinafy fix

Chinafy evaluated the EPIISOD site from inside Mainland China, identified the resources and code-level incompatibilities behind the broken pages and the login failure, and applied optimization rules to resolve them.

The optimized version is delivered through near-China CDN infrastructure. Visitors in China are routed to Chinafy, while global visitors continue to reach the original site. 

The only change required on EPIISOD's side was a DNS update.

The Results

The optimized EPIISOD site loads fully in under 7 seconds.

The loading time in China (in blue) is on par with its global original benchmark in Singapore (in grey).

Website accessibility and performance for visitors in Mainland China depend on regional network conditions, third-party services, and regulatory filtering outside the control of any single platform. Availability and speed vary due to external network factors.

About Chinafy

Chinafy specializes in making global websites load quickly, fully, and consistently in China without requiring teams to rebuild or rehost their sites. 

It works by optimizing code-level compatibility, handling third-party resources that underperform in China, and layering on infrastructure and CDNs built for China.

All it takes to deploy a website with Chinafy is a quick 15-minute DNS update.

Get in touch with Chinafy for a free evaluation of your site