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The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is a multi-media news publisher and its titles include The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Telegraph website.  Today, its site serves more than 380 million pages to over 84 million unique visitors every month across the globe, featuring on average about 15,000 stories and 900 videos.

While The Telegraph is a true digital pioneer - its website launched four years before Google and ten years before Facebook - it too is forging a new path.  Like other online publishers, Telegraph is looking for data and new ways to help drive greater engagement and improve customer experience.

The State of the Internet Report is growing up - with this issue, it enters its tenth year of publication.  Over time, it has matured in many ways, including its length, design, and the content it includes.  Looking back at that first issue (all 17 pages of it), for the first quarter of 2008, we find that the report covered:

In our previous blog, we saw how a new generation of users are increasing the expectations of a mobile app like never before and identified the three key success criteria for mobile apps: 1) increase customer conversions, 2) drive installs and 3) increase customer loyalty. For this blog we profiled the Top 100 retail apps in the app store to explain how you can leverage Akamai features to meet the three success criteria for mobile apps.

I'm extremely excited to announce the release of our very first State of Online Retail Performance report. This report is a semi-annual analysis of the intersection of performance metrics from three different perspectives: IT, business, and user experience.

It's always a thrill to release new research into the wild, and I'm extra thrilled about this particular project.

As our first piece of new research to be released under the Akamai umbrella, it's fitting that this project is also the biggest of its kind in the performance industry. We gathered one month's worth of beacon data from leading retail sites, comprised of our customers who have given permission for their data to be anonymized, aggregated and used in this type of research. This study represents a whopping 27.7 billion beacons' worth of user data - which equates to more than 10 billion user visits.

What is HTTP/2 Server Push? How does it work? Why is it valuable? If you are looking for the answers to these questions, you've come to the right place.

What does the morning of a typical mobile user look like? It's probably something like this:

• 6:00 a.m. - Your alarm wakes you up and automatically starts increasing the brightness to your bedroom lamps. The snooze button is not an option today!
• 7:00 a.m. - On your morning run, you track your total mileage and pace, and then share your workout details and scoreboard on Facebook.
• 8:00 a.m. - You check your phone to make sure your train is on time, you can't be late to work!
• 8:15 a.m. - You catch your train and check Facebook, LinkedIn, Snapchat, and your standard news apps to get up to speed.
• 8:30 a.m. - As you get off your stop, you choose your coffee order and pay for it, so it's ready and waiting for you - no more waiting in line at Starbucks!
• 8:45 a.m. - With coffee in hand, you walk to the office and check your office slack, Skype, and Whatsapp groups to prepare for the day ahead.
• 9:00 a.m. You enter the office and get your day started.

So...what do all of the activities above have in common? Mobile apps. And in the first three hours of a day, it's totally normal to have interacted with 10+ apps to accomplish a variety of tasks. This is the reality of today's mobile user.

Many customers ask Akamai about Disaster Recovery testing and Business Continuity planning as a part of their due diligence or risk management process. Customers expect to see a governance document maintained by a central authority, a list of systems with Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), and a documented testing plan that is enacted quarterly or annually. Akamai reframes these questions to better match our approach to continuity and recovery, all of which we include under the umbrella of "resilience."

Images are used to inspire, evoke emotion, and provide ways of communicating that simply cannot be done with words. It's no wonder that web pages with images get 94 percent more views than those without.

Images have become integral to how we experience the web, and the importance of delivering the right image at the right time to your users couldn't be more important. First impressions matter, and your users will see and experience images on a web page 60,000 times faster than text.

With the Black Friday, Cyber Monday holiday weekend upon us, retailers in the U.S. and abroad are preparing for another peak period for customer acquisition and commerce revenues.  In 2016, the U.S. eCommerce market is the second largest globally and is expected to reach a total of $482 billion by 2018.  China is still the global leader with its B2C eCommerce market accounting for 38% of worldwide turnover; this Singles' Day, November 11th, 2016, Alibaba's success highlighted the region's potential turning over $17.8 billion in sales in one day (and $1 billion in just the first five minutes), surpassing last year's record of $14.3 billion record by 24%.

With the Internet transition from IPv4 to IPv6 now in full-gear, the topic of IPv6 was raised in number of forums at the Akamai Edge conference this week.

In a keynote on Wednesday morning, Ash Kulkarni mentioned how enabling delivery of sites and content over IPv6 by default is one of the ways that Ion 3 helps accelerate mobile performance, aiming to improve the user experience and resulting business metrics.