Category Archives: Web Performance

Akamai Drives New Standards and Enhances Authoritative DNS and Load Balancing Services

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For more than 20 years, Akamai’s customers have trusted our global edge platform to deliver their content, secure their web applications, and accelerate end-user experiences. As the basis for our mapping functions, Akamai DNS has always been essential to the reliability and performance of our platform and our services, and our popular authoritative DNS services — Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management (GTM) — are a direct result of the significant investments made by Akamai in our DNS infrastructure. Continue reading Akamai Drives New Standards and Enhances Authoritative DNS and Load Balancing Services→

What’s New in Delivery

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Welcome to day two of the Akamai Platform Update!
Today, we’re focusing on Akamai’s edge delivery products as well as other complimentary products that help drive great digital experiences. The last several months have been nothing short of unprecedent… Continue reading What’s New in Delivery→

Timers, Metrics, and Dimensions: What’s New in mPulse in 2020

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The October 2020 release marks the culmination of a large number of updates to mPulse, Akamai’s real user monitoring (RUM) solution:
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What’s New in Edge Delivery

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Welcome to day two of the Akamai Platform Update!
Today, we’re focusing on Akamai’s edge delivery products as well as other complimentary products that help drive great digital experiences. The last several months have been nothing short of unprecedented as lockdowns, quarantines, and other protective measures enacted by governments and organizations drove a sudden and dramatic shift in user behavior, which in turn has driven enormous traffic levels. Akamai’s importance has never been more evident as companies continue to rely on the intelligent edge platform to maintain business continuity and support the unprecedented traffic demand from online audiences. Regardless of the type of content, be it websites, apps, APIs, video, software, or smaller objects, Akamai’s comprehensive set of content delivery products — including Ion, Adaptive Media Delivery, and Download Delivery — are designed to deliver great digital experiences for every user, regardless of location, device, or network. Continue reading What’s New in Edge Delivery→

Measuring & Improving Core Web Vitals

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Google recently announced a proposed update to its search ranking algorithm: the Page Experience Update. This change, which launches in 2021, includes more performance signals in the ranking algorithm. A subtle but important feature of the update is that AMP will no longer be a requirement for promotion to Top Stories — fast pages are all you need! Continue reading Measuring & Improving Core Web Vitals→

You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

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Locality matters for most things in life: weather, health care, shopping, product reviews, dinner reservations, social networking, data privacy, news, sports … the list goes on and on in our ever more connected lives. From direct user interaction on … Continue reading You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve→

You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

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Locality matters for most things in life: weather, health care, shopping, product reviews, dinner reservations, social networking, data privacy, news, sports … the list goes on and on in our ever more connected lives. From direct user interaction on your flagship website or app to IoT device data collection and transformation, where your target audience is and where they are going is essential to providing the experience they need, want, and deserve. This experience needs to honor the privacy of the user, ensure the integrity and safe handling of personal data, and provide an accurate localized view of your key content — all while being highly performant, available, and secure. Continue reading You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve→

Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns

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Before we dive straight into the magical unicorn from heaven that is serverless computing embedded within the CDN edge (a direct customer quote that I want on a team T-shirt soon), let’s first level-set on some basic concepts of computing. In the conte… Continue reading Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns→