Does Acquia Work in China?
Tags: acquia, drupal, china, dxp
Published: 2021-12-30 21:56:35

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In this article, we will walk you through some speed tests we conducted to determine if Acquia works in China or not. Our staff conducted the tests in Shanghai (China Mainland) and Hong Kong (outside Mainland China) and we used 3rd party testing tools to ensure our tests weren't biased. 

By the end of this article, you should have a good understanding of Acquia and if it works in Mainland China or not. Also, you can contact us to get a free speed test of your Acquia site for China.

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## What is Acquia?

Acquia is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company founded to provide enterprise products, services, and technical support for the open-source web content management (CMS) platform Drupal.  

Aquia is one of the leading Digital Experience Platform (“DXP”) by Gartner Magic Quadrant 2020.


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## Does Aquia Work in China?

The short answer is no. 

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/4s7f2qvvkrgmpm454fmx.png)

Below is the long answer if you want to understand why:

1. Acquia’s website states that their service does not work in China. Acquia relies on services like AWS to host their Drupal-powered platform. These western hosting providers do not work well in China, as we’ll see below.

2. If your business didn't have any legal licenses for your site and content in China, your ecommerce store is operating illegally in China.

Luckily we have put together [solutions for you to make your business and your Acquia’s site work in China.
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Don't just take our words. Let's look at some websites powered by Acquia and see how well they work in China.


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## How do we check if a website works in China or not?

There are two checks we need to perform to conclude if a website works in China.

1. How fast is the site in Mainland China?
2. If your business doesn’t have any legal licenses for your site and content in China, it is operating illegally in China.


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## Speed Tests Results 

We picked 5 websites from Acquia Global Customers and considered these websites to follow the best practices by Acquia.

Then we follow the test questions mentioned earlier for each website and create a report with the following format:


**1. A figure to see how fast the site performs across Mainland China.**

This figure basically shows how fast the website loads across Mainland China (green = fast, red=slow)

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**2. A video to see how the site performance in China visually.**

We made a screen record of the website loading in Shanghai, China. This provides you with an intuitive way to see how fast the site visually loads and understand what people in China actually experience when they visit the website.

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**3. A yes-no check to see if the site complied with the laws in China.**

If the site passes the legal check, it's a green check. If it doesn't pass, we will tell you why it doesn't pass.

Now, let's dive into the reports for each of the selected websites using Acquia.

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**UNICEF, www.unicef.com**


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UNICEF, also known as the United Nations Children’s Fund, is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. The agency operates in 192 countries and territories worldwide.

From our speed test, people in China have difficulty viewing the images on the UNICEF’s website. (that’s what the below figure means, red means unable to display images).


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/01hfi6es3ykt7e73gx22.png)
Here is a more intuitive way to see it, we screen-recorded the process when a user browses UNICEF’s website in Shanghai, click the video below to see it in action:


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**Does the UNICEF’s website comply with the laws in China?**

No. It doesn't pass our Legal check because the business does not have an ICP license displayed at the footer of their website.

If you don't know what an ICP license is, [click](https://launch-in-china.21yunbox.com/untold-facts-about-icp-for-china.html) to learn more.

Finding if a website has an ICP license is pretty straightforward, just scroll to the bottom of the page, if you see a number like this (see below Nike's websites for China), then the business behind the website has an ICP for China. If not, they don't have it. You can check if your website has it or not.

Below is an example of Nike's website in China, and its ICP number.


![Nike's ICP no for China](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/4iuhg0xw3yih0sd0zbof.png)


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Similarly, we ran the same tests for the rest of the Acquia user's websites. To see the full case studies, just click on the brand name below:


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**Moderna, www.modernatx.com**


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Moderna Corporation is a well-known manufacturer of small kitchen appliances. They manufacture and sell kitchen appliances worldwide.

Click [here](https://https://launch-in-china.21yunbox.com/solutions/does-acquia-work-in-china.html#moderna) to see Moderna full case study.

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**Ocean Network Express, www.one-line.com**


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/bs0f9wgg3znkwmtbck0b.png)

Ocean Network Express Holdings, Ltd. (ONE) is a Japanese container transportation and shipping company that ships goods world wide.


Click [here](https://launch-in-china.21yunbox.com/solutions/does-acquia-work-in-china.html#one) to see ONE's case study results.

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**The Singapore Institute of Technology, www.singaporetech.edu.sg**


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/bdrke8fzfbvkjpiug0fm.png)

The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is Singapore’s first university of applied learning.


Click [here](https://launch-in-china.21yunbox.com/solutions/does-optimizely-episerver-work-in-china.html#sit) to see UniSA's case study results.

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**Acquia, www.acquia.com**

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For the final case study, lets take a look at Acquia own website.

Click [here](https://launch-in-china.21yunbox.com/solutions/does-acquia-work-in-china.html#acquia) to see Acquia's case study results.

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## Need Acquia to Work in China?

In short, if your business is going to China, make sure your website passes the two tests we mentioned above to have a fast speed of first load and good viewing and browsing quality for your users in China.


> _**Reducing page load time by 0.1 seconds will increase the conversion rate by 8%.**_ - Google, Deloitte


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If you need to get Acquia working in China, feel free to [contact us](https://www.21cloudbox.com/contact.html) or click here to [get started.](https://www.21cloudbox.com/with/acquia.html)

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