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Balance traffic intelligently by leveraging Applicat ...
Gaining new customers and retaining existing ones is at the core of every business. In the past few years, two major trends have emerged in this drive towards customer centricity To meet the ever increasing customer demands, most modern digital applications leverage microservice architecture to achieve scalability, agility and reduce time to market. These are ideal for DevOps teams that need continuous deployment workflows. But all this comes at a
Telegraph delivers better experience with Image Mana ...
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
The State of the Internet: A Decade of Change
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:
The State of Mobile App Performance
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
New findings: The State of Online Retail Performance ...
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
HTTP/2 Server Push: The What, How and Why
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.
Mobile App Users: The Next Generation
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
Akamai's Global Content Distribution Network: Replac ...
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
Automating your Image Workflow with Akamai Image Man ...
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