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Mobile Browser Usage in Q1 2015
In June 2012, Akamai launched the Akamai Internet Observatory (IO) destination site that highlights browser usage across desktop and other connected devices. The data presented in the full Q1 2015 State of the Internet ReporBe and this blog post are derived from the Akamai IO site.
High Performing Images - A practical approach to ima ...
HTTP is ubiquitous. Seems like everything today is being served from the web. We are using smartphones to do everything from answering our doorbells while we are at work to remotely controlling SUV's. All of this, happening on a platform we call the World Wide Web. Websites are delivering richer and more personalized content than ever before, creating user experiences that were never conceived of. This means, more than ever,
Mobile Connectivity in Q1 2015
The Q1 2015 State of the Internet Report records usage from: smartphones, tablets, computers, and any other device that connects to the Akamai Intelligent Platform via a mobile network provider. Usage is then aggregated at a country/region level. To qualify for inclusion in the report (and this blog post), a minimum of 25,000 unique IP addresses from a country/region are required to connect to Akamai's network. In total, 62 countries/regions
Situational Performance in Q1 2015
In June 2013, Akamai announced the latest release of Ion. Ion is designed to meet the unique challenges of optimizing the desktop and mobile Web experience. One feature of Ion is a capability known as Real User Monitoring (RUM). RUM takes performance measurements from real Web users to provide developers with insights into performance across a multitude of devices and networks. Ideally, RUM is used in tandem with synthetic testing to
How your CDN changes the performance of your site
Customer expectations are driving ever increasing demands on website performance. Delays are now measured in milliseconds, not seconds, and cause direct financial impact to the business. And yet, despite these pressures for each business to have lightning fast websites and large budgets being spent on performance, most businesses are still plagued with slow sites. The median page load time for the largest 1000 websites is a whopping 6.4 seconds, more
Internet Penetration in Q1 2015
Through Akamai's globally deployed Intelligent PlatformTM, and by nature of servicing roughly two trillion requests for Web content on a daily basis, Akamai has unique insight into Internet penetration around the globe. In the first quarter of 2015, over 812 million unique IPv4 addresses from 243 unique countries/regions connected to the Akamai Intelligent PlatformTM--a 1.2% increase from the previous quarter.
Performance Matters More Than Ever - The Business Im ...
In April of this year, we got the official word -- the average webpage now exceeds 2MB in size. If it seems like page size is increasing at an incredible rate...you aren't imagining things. In July of last year, the average page size had just exceeded 1.5 MB for the top 1,000 websites.
Internet Disruptions in Q1 2015
First Quarter, 2015 Internet DisruptionsInternet disruptions are still a frustrating reality in many regions across the globe. The most common types of disruptions generally fall into three categories: accidental (backhoes or ship anchors severing buried fiber), natural (hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.), or political (shut down by a government in response to protest). As a provider of customer content across the globe, Akamai is in a unique position to monitor traffic levels
What happened to "Broadband", "High Broadband", and ...
If you are a long-time reader of the State of the Internet Report, you are like familiar with the terms “Broadband”, “High Broadband”, and “4K Ready” as they have historically been used in the report. (For specific definitions, see the blog post at http://akamai.me/sotimetrics) When you read the First Quarter, 2015 State of the Internet Report, you’ll see that we’ve phased out the usage of these terms in favor of speed-specific references.