Category Archives: webperformance

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→

The Publishing Industry — Where to Now?

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Many of us have spent far more time at home looking at screens to keep up to date with the world than would have seemed possible at the start of the year. In the UK, as with many other countries, the lockdown rules and pandemic response were changing on a near-daily basis, and the 5 PM government briefing became a regular fixture of the evening news. Unsurprisingly, those media firms offering up this vital information — and, of course, escapism from the grimness — have seen huge increases in traffic … but what now? Continue reading The Publishing Industry — Where to Now?→

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→

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→