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The Performance Challenges of WAN Architecture
How many websites have you accessed today, and from how many devices? Were you satisfied with the speed of your service and the experience of connecting? Did it enable you to keep moving at the pace you need?
Preparing for the Holidays: What You Should Do
At this point in our Preparing for Holiday series, we've covered trends in mobile and security. And while knowledge is certainly important, what's more important is acting on that knowledge. Hopefully you've taken some time to examine how these trends apply to your eCommerce business and have put together an action plan as a result. If you're not entirely sure of the best approach to take, here are three tips
Globalization and Consumerization: The New Challenge ...
Headquarters in America. Branches in Europe. Offices in India. Suppliers in Taiwan. Employees at home, on the road, and everywhere in between: All of whom need to connect to business-critical applications and who expect to be able to do so from whatever device is at hand.
The Changing Requirements of Application Delivery So ...
The correlation between the success of a company and its operational agility is no secret - the faster an enterprise is able to tackle new challenges and introduce new innovations, the more likely it is to be successful in those areas. The rapid pace of technological developments in the modern world has introduced wrinkles to this paradigm and left many businesses shackled to old methods of networking and legacy
A Tale of Mobile Waiting
A few weeks back at the Velocity Conference, Akamai's own Guy Podjarny released a little book he wrote on the intersection of responsive web design and performance. Many of you have downloaded it, but if not, I urge you to do so here. But if you weren't at Velocity, and in particular weren't around for Guy's keynote; then you missed a very special "Book Reading" (and a pretty special hat)
Web Experience Overview with M.J. Johnson
Watch this overview of how Akamai helps our customers deliver reliable, fast and secure web experiences with Akamai Director of Web Experience Product Marketing, M.J. Johnson. M.J. also provides an overview of how websites have evolved into full-fledged dynamic applications and how the way users interact with these sites has changed with the proliferation of new devices and variable network conditions.
Mobile Retail Traffic represents 35 percent of the T ...
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Extreme Image Optimization: WebP & JPEG XR in Aqua I ...
Images are probably the simplest component on a web page today. They don't block the parsing of the HTML and don't get in the way of rendering other components. Generally, they just sit there and look pretty. However, for what they lack in complexity, they compensate in volume. According to the HTTP Archive, images make up 61% of the bytes on the average desktop homepage, and 65% of the bytes
The online holiday shopping season: A look back at 2 ...
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