Category Archives: Web Performance

Enhancing API Gateway With Request Throttling to Manage Overconsumption

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API traffic is exploding online and across the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. APIs are the connective tissue among organizations driving innovative and integrated digital experiences. As these experiences are mission critical for organizations to monetize partnerships, create connections for employees, or enable modern application architectures, they need scale, protection, and governance to be successful. Continue reading Enhancing API Gateway With Request Throttling to Manage Overconsumption→

HTTP/2 Will be Automatically Enabled by Default on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform

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HTTP, the foundation for data communication over the web, wasn’t designed for delivering the rich content that is common in today’s websites. HTTP/2, which represents a major update to the HTTP network protocol, has been introduced to deliver such websites and provides a significant improvement in the performance, security and privacy of today’s web. Continue reading HTTP/2 Will be Automatically Enabled by Default on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform→

DataStream – The Real World Benefits of Real time Logging

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Businesses need to know what’s happening at the ‘edge’ of their networks in real time and bake that information into a holistic system health monitoring portal view across their sites with integrated log feeds from other layers of the stack. This visibility and control become increasingly indispensable as we progressively move content and application logic to the Edge away from the congested origins. Continue reading DataStream – The Real World Benefits of Real time Logging→

What’s New in Web Performance? – March 2019

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Organizations that do business on the web are at various stages in their digital transformation journey. Some are developing some of the most innovative and immersive digital experiences on the web, others are, for the first time, figuring out how to safely move applications to the cloud with minimal disruption to the user experience, and most are somewhere in the middle. Continue reading What’s New in Web Performance? – March 2019→

Christmas Day was Quiet for Online Retailers But Picked Up Immediately on Boxing Day

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Christmas Holiday Retail Sales In early November, eMarketer forecast that the 2018 U.S. online retail holiday sales would be $106 billion, a healthy increase of 16.6% over 2017….
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Mobile Trends during the US Holiday Weekend

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Over the past few years we’ve seen a tremendous growth in mobile traffic on the web. Because of this many of the most successful websites have invested in optimizing the experience of users on whatever device they use and…
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As Predicted, Mobile Continued eCommerce Dominance Over the Holiday Weekend

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Akamai predicted in September 2018 that mobile shopping would continue its growth this holiday shopping season. That prediction held true as we saw mobile devices increase their share of Black Friday online shopping traffic volume to 57.55%, with deskt… Continue reading As Predicted, Mobile Continued eCommerce Dominance Over the Holiday Weekend→

As Predicted, Mobile Continued eCommerce Dominance Over the Holiday Weekend

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Akamai predicted in September 2018 that mobile shopping would continue its growth this holiday shopping season. That prediction held true as we saw mobile devices increase their share of Black Friday online shopping traffic volume to 57.55%, with desktop… Continue reading As Predicted, Mobile Continued eCommerce Dominance Over the Holiday Weekend→