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#MobilePerf Blog Series: Mobile Page Speed WILL Impa ...
In my last blog when I kicked off our MobilePerf Blog Series, I talked about mobile Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Google's guidance on how to make your sites mobile friendly. Google just announced that they will also factor in your mobile site's page speed when ranking your organization in the mobile friendly search results.
#MobilePerf Blog Series: Mobile Search Engine Optimi ...
Today we are kicking off a new series of blog posts where we will specifically focus on mobile experiences, challenges, solutions, tips, trends and optimizations but most importantly, you will read insight and opinions from Akamai mobile experts. The first post is on mobile SEO and Key challenges for developing and managing mobile friendly web sites and apps.
Securing the future of mobile video
By Lu Bolden, Vice President, Business Development, Verimatrix The coming of age for mobile video and TV was perhaps one of the most tangible takeaways from the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) at Barcelona, amid some of the more futuristic demonstrations around say the Internet of Things and virtual reality.
Looking Forward in Insurance - Trends That Are Forci ...
The discussions among the insurance industry participants at Akamai's Edge conference this past October were fascinating. It was abundantly clear, that there are major shifts ahead that will set the course for where the industry is headed in the long-term. Although the insurance industry as a whole has been less agile, heavily burdened by legacy systems and is really one of the last data-driven businesses to realize a full digital
What's Your Headroom?
The recent volatility in the stock market serves as a reminder to those in the brokerage world about the challenges of capacity planning during unstable equity markets. We are only 10 trading days into 2016, and the the S&P 500 index is down 8.0%. As shown in the table below, we've now had 4 days of 400+ point swings in the market.
The move to an Encrypted Web
It wasn't too long ago that the only reason a site would leverage HTTPS was to encrypt sensitive data so it couldn't be read in transit. Times are changing and the Internet as we know it is moving more and more towards encrypting all website traffic. Below are 7 good reasons to move your website to only use HTTPS.
Fingerprint Banking: Will convenience overcome secur ...
"Fingerprint banking", or the ability to conduct financial transactions from your phone with your fingerprint, without the need for a username and password, has quickly become a mainstream feature in banking apps around the globe. But will this new feature convince mobile holdouts - those customers that don't trust mobile banking - to cross over? Or will it further scare them away?
The Travel Challenge - Enabling The User Experience
Two weeks ago key players in the travel industry gathered from around the world to discover, debate and capitalize on the latest trends and opportunities in travel at the PhocusWright Conference in Fort Lauderdale. One of the hottest topics on the agenda was how to improve the travelers' experience from booking to actually traveling - and how important mobile is to that process. While mobile devices generate 25 percent of
Mobile surges ahead driving a record start to the ho ...
Retailers can look back on the start of this holiday season and breath a sigh of relief that all signs point to another strong holiday season. According to figures released by Adobe, Cyber Monday closed with $3.07 billion in sales setting a new single day sales record. Black Friday also set records and marked the highest spike over the five-day shopping weekend with a 109 percent jump in traffic, according