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How to Start Optimizing in an H/2 World
If there was ever a truism it is that technology is rapidly evolving under our feet. What was right today, is likely to be sub-optimal tomorrow. This situation can cause a sense of paralysis leading to delayed action because next week the "Next Great Thing" is coming soon. With the advent of HTTP/2 (h2) that translates to holding off on optimizing your web properties. When you have large portions of
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
Winning Web Performance Part 3 - Increasing Self Ser ...
These API's are critical to us...without them, we're hurting. - Terry Drozdowski, Director of Engineering, Exceda. At Akamai, we believe the future of the Internet lies in the hands of the developers and architects who tackle hard problems every day. With our Open Platform Initiative, we simplified access to the Akamai Intelligent Platform for better and easier integration with home-grown and third party technologies and applications. The initiative exposes the
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.
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
CDNs, Performance and Monitoring - Part 2: KPIs to m ...
In my previous blog, I showed how seriously the performance of your website can be affected by your CDN, even though many don't include it in their monitoring strategy. To enable you to improve your performance tuning and rapid troubleshooting, you must monitor your CDN along with the rest of your systems and do so effectively. In this blog I'll show you how to do just that.
Winning Web Performance Part 2 - Achieving Faster, P ...
Earlier you had to choose, should you personalize or cache everything... we wanted to do both. -- Fredrik Ahlen (CTO) The business decision had been made. Fredrik Ahlen (CTO) and Patrik Wallin (Lead Developer) of Health & Sports Nutrition Group (Gymgrossisten) were going to undergo a personalization overhaul to increase conversion rates. This meant personalizing nearly everything -- category pages, product pages, product recommendations and more. It was up to
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
Defining OTT Webinar Series
All indications are that Over-the-Top (OTT) video services will attract larger audiences, be delivered at higher bit rates, and provide viewers with more entertainment options than ever before, all of which can further complicate your already complex media strategy.Please join me on Wednesday, December 9th at 2PM ET/11AM PT as we define and discuss the rapidly shifting OTT 2.0 landscape. Whether you've already launched a new OTT service or